# OnCo record alternative-medicine-instead-of-treatment (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
onco:kind "technology" ;
schema:identifier "alternative-medicine-instead-of-treatment" ;
schema:name "Alternative medicine used instead of standard treatment"@en ;
schema:description "Complementary approaches used alongside treatment can help with symptoms. Choosing an alternative therapy instead of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy or hormone therapy is a different decision: in a national US database, people who did so were two and a half times as likely to die within the study period, and more than five times as likely with breast cancer."@en ;
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schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
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onco:status "negative" ;
onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:harm" ;
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