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Cancer is one of the most important health problems in both low/middle income countries and developed countries, and its increasing prevalence across the world accentuates the urgent need to find effective solutions to this global health issue. Patients with cancer are increasingly resorting to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments to boost their immune systems, feel mentally stronger, and to overcome cancer-related symptoms and adverse effects of cancer treatment, in order to continue effective treatment and thereby increase life expectancy and quality of life. Meanwhile, medical centres using classical or modern procedures are increasingly acknowledging such techniques and have started to incorporate them into their treatment approaches. This has contributed to the development of CAM. It was recently estimated that 7–54% of the US population use CAM1; moreover, it appears that its use has notably increased among patients with cancer, …