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Volume 2, Issue 2 (Suppl) Breast Can Curr Res
ISSN: 2572-4118 BCCR, an open access journal Breast Cancer Summit 2017
May 08-10, 2017
May 08-10, 2017 Singapore
4th World Congress on
Breast Cancer
The use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy preparation among women with breast
cancer in Taiwan
Sheng-Miauh Huang5 Ping-Ho Chen1, Jerry Cheng-Yen Lai2, Chen-Jei Tai1, Li-Yin Chien3 and Hsueh-Wen Chung4
5Mackay Medical College, Taiwan
1Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
2Institute of Public Health, Taiwan
3Institute of Community Health Care, Taiwan
4National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Background: Previous evidences indicated that female cancer patients suffered from infertility after cancer-related treatment. Use
of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), particularly traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and natural products, in
pregnancy preparation and fertility management is becoming increasingly common in Taiwan.
Objective: The study purposes are to describe the use of CAM among breast cancer women after cancer-related treatment in
pregnancy preparation in Taiwan and to examine factors associated with the use of CAM.
Methods: Reproductive-age (20-49 years old) women with breast cancer after cancer-related treatment between January 2011 and
December 2014 in a Taiwan city participated in the study. Interview was completed with 178 (62%) of those 287 eligible, asking about
sociodemographic variables, disease/treatment characteristics, and the use of CAM.
Results: The CAM was used after cancer-related treatment by 8.4% of women with breast cancer. Approximately one-quarter (25.7%)
of those women ever used CAM to increase the probability of pregnancy. The TCM was the most popular option (24.6%). Age was
significantly different between CAM users and those who did not use CAM. The result of binary logistic regression showed that younger
women less than 40 years old was the key predictor for using CAM when considering pregnancy (OR = 1.47; 95% CI: 1.84, 10.22).
Conclusions: This study found that younger women with breast cancer would search CAM, especially for TCM, to prepare pregnancy
in Taiwan. Health providers should help them to choose safe TCM and increase the quality of cancer and pregnancy care.
Biography
Sheng-Miauh Huang has completed her PhD at the age of 35 years from National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. She is the assistant professor at the
department of nursing, Mackay Medical College in Taiwan. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals, especially for cancer care.
Sheng-Miauh Huang et al., Breast Can Curr Res 2017, 2:2(Suppl)