NCI overview explaining that cancer patients may use CAM to cope with treatment side effects, comfort themselves, or try to treat cancer, and that CAM should be discussed with the care team. Used to frame grounding as supportive rather than curative.
Faith-Based or Religious Practices
Faith-Based or Religious Practices is a spiritual, psychological, emotional, or highly unconventional protocol used for meaning, fear reduction, emotional processing, perceived energy balancing, personal agency, or nonphysical healing claims in cancer settings. In cancer care, it should be evaluated by evidence level, intended use, safety, interactions, and whether it is being used as conventional treatment, supportive care.
Randomized controlled trial of a spiritual intervention for hope and spiritual well-being in people with cancer.
Clinical trial of religious psychotherapy emphasizing prayers for mental health and pain in cancer patients.
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials evaluating spiritual interventions for cancer-related spiritual, psychological, and quality-of-life outcomes.
Randomized blinded study of intercessory prayer added to normal cancer treatment, measuring spiritual well-being and quality-of-life outcomes.
Study of prayer types, depressive symptoms, rumination, and social support among ambulatory cancer outpatients.
Qualitative study describing praying, receiving support, and coping with cancer among men with prostate cancer.