[Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Uro-Oncology]

The West German Comprehensive Cancer Center is confronted with more than 30 000 questions per year concerning unconventional anti-cancer strategies. Unconventional or complementary drugs are not to be compared with placebos. Similar to cytotoxic drugs, unconvetional drugs have to be tested according to the guidelines of <> (GCP). An adjuvant treatment with unconventional drugs is not indicated. Because an possible immunomodulating effect, long-term results have to be considered - especially related to tumor progression. Right now a routine application of unconventional drugs is not indicated in the field of urological oncology.