Formal and informal processes in an Australian cancer support group: An exploratory case study

Chatwin, J; Adams, J; Tovey, P

Formal and informal processes in an Australian cancer support group: An exploratory case study

Chatwin, J Adams, J

Tovey, P

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Publisher:: Regional Cancer Center, Trivandrum, India
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer, 2006, 5 (3), pp. 125 - 130
Issue Date:: 2006-01

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dc.contributor.author	Chatwin, J	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Adams, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9901-5717	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Tovey, P	en_US
dc.date.issued	2006-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer, 2006, 5 (3), pp. 125 - 130	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0972-2556	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16993
dc.description.abstract	Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has continued to achieve an ever higher place on healthcare agendas in western countries - including Australia - over the last decade. This is evident in the extensive interest in, and use by, patients. Recent estimates suggest that Australians spend $2.3 billion a year on CAM, a figure in line with those identified in other western countries. There has also been extensive growth in the number of CAM service providers both within and beyond orthodox biomedicine. Indeed, during the course of the last decade, the tone of discourse on CAM has gradually hifted away from paradigmatic confrontation, and towards a position grounded in talk of integration and integrative practice. These trends are perhaps most evident in cancer care, where there is considerable evidence that interest, use, and the rhetoric of integration are most pronounced. In terms of provision and integrative trends, and in terms of cancerspecific activity, the situation in Australia illustrates these wider trends well.	en_US
dc.publisher	Regional Cancer Center, Trivandrum, India	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer	en_US
dc.title	Formal and informal processes in an Australian cancer support group: An exploratory case study	en_US
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Abstract:

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has continued to achieve an ever higher place on healthcare agendas in western countries - including Australia - over the last decade. This is evident in the extensive interest in, and use by, patients. Recent estimates suggest that Australians spend $2.3 billion a year on CAM, a figure in line with those identified in other western countries. There has also been extensive growth in the number of CAM service providers both within and beyond orthodox biomedicine. Indeed, during the course of the last decade, the tone of discourse on CAM has gradually hifted away from paradigmatic confrontation, and towards a position grounded in talk of integration and integrative practice. These trends are perhaps most evident in cancer care, where there is considerable evidence that interest, use, and the rhetoric of integration are most pronounced. In terms of provision and integrative trends, and in terms of cancerspecific activity, the situation in Australia illustrates these wider trends well.

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