Crowdfunding for complementary and alternative medicine: What are cancer patients seeking?

Jeremy SnyderMarco ZenoneTimothy Caulfield
Published in: PloS one (2020)
These findings confirm active and ongoing interest in using crowdfunding platforms to finance CAM cancer interventions. They confirm previous findings that CAM users with cancer tend to have late stage cancers, cancers with high mortality rates, and specific diseases such as breast cancer. These findings can inform targeted responses where facilities engage in misleading marketing practices and the efficacy of interventions is unproven.