To investigate the effect of cancer on T&CAM use, we analyzed outpatient utilization pattern and the number of T&CAM outpatient visits. Outpatient utilization pattern is analyzed over a past 12-month period is categorized into four types: ‘Using both Korean medicine and conventional medicine’, ‘Not using Korean medicine but using conventional medicine’, ‘Not using conventional medicine but using Korean medicine’, ‘Neither using Korean medicine nor conventional medicine’. The number of T&CAM outpatient visits was then calculated using the sum of the number of visits over 12 months.
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