Use of Self-Care and Practitioner-Based Forms of Complementary and Alternative Medicine before and after a Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

Table 3

Timing of the top 6 self-care and practitioner based modalities per category among women in the LIBCSP follow-up interview (2002–2004).

	Starters	Continuers	Quitters	Never users
Multivitamins (any)	20.5%	55.5%	10.6%	13.4%
Single Vitamins	19.1%	57.3%	5.0%	18.6%
Calcium	25.3%	20.9%	4.1%	49.7%
Vitamin E	22.6%	24.7%	4.2%	48.4%
Vitamin C	16.5%	32.7%	9.3%	41.5%
B12	8.9%	3.5%	5.2%	82.3%
B Complex vitamins	7.9%	7.1%	4.5%	80.6%
Iron	3.7%	2.1%	11.9%	82.3%
Botanicals	10.5%	29.2%	1.6%	58.8%
Green tea	20.9%	2.4%	^a	76.3%
Echinacea	9.8%	4.7%	1.2%	84.3%
Ginkgo biloba	4.6%	1.6%	1.3%	92.5%
Black Cohosh	2.1%	^a	^a	97.5%
St. John's Wort	1.3%	^a	^a	98.2%
Chamomile	0.7%	1.6%	0.0%	97.8%
Other OTC products	12.3%	12.3%	3.0%	72.4%
Glucosamine	10.3%	^a	0.7%	88.5%
Chondroitin	8.8%	^a	0.9%	89.8%
Co-Q-10	8.1%	2.0%	^a	89.4%
Fish oil	5.5%	2.2%	3.3%	89.0%
Fiber supplements	4.7%	5.0%	3.0%	87.3%
Mind-body	11.6%	16.6%	1.4%	70.3%
Visualization	7.7%	4.5%	0.7%	83.2%
Meditation	6.9%	8.5%	1.2%	83.2%
Yoga	6.8%	3.3%	1.7%	83.2%
Tai chi	3.3%	0.7%	1.4%	83.2%
Poetry	2.6%	3.1%	^a	83.2%
Music therapy	1.8%	5.2%	0.0%	83.2%
Prayer	4.80%	35.5%	0.0%	59.7%
Support groups	17.40%	3.70%	0.8%	78.1%
Special diets	10.9%	21.6%	1.0%	66.5%
Low-fat diet	11.0%	14.9%	1.0%	72.1%
Weight loss	8.8%	4.1%	3.5%	83.1%
Change consumption of soy	6.9%	1.2%	^a	91.6%
No red meat	6.4%	3.8%	^a	89.3%
Organic	5.9%	1.4%	^a	92.5%
High fiber	5.1%	3.0%	^a	91.6%
Practitioner-based	14.8%	25.4%	7.2%	52.6%
Massage	9.4%	7.6%	0.7%	81.9%
Chiropractor	6.2%	12.0%	8.9%	72.5%
Acupuncture	6.0%	1.4%	2.8%	89.7%
Reiki, healing touch, other energy	5.5%	0.9%	^a	92.9%
psychotherapy	5.5%	8.1%	2.1%	84.3%
Nutritionist or dietician	3.5%	^a	0.7%	95.7%

aData are not displayed due to cell sizes <5.