Not all cancer patients with an interest in CAM are the same. Differences between patients with a CAM interest prior to the cancer diagnosis and those with first-time interest since diagnosis.

Objectives: The aim was to assess differences in age, gender, education and personality (Big Five) between cancer patients already interested in CAM prior to the diagnosis and cancer patients only interested in CAM since their diagnosis.

Design: 323 members of the support and information platform "Lebenshaus e.V.

Importance of and Satisfaction with Information about Their Disease in Cancer Patients.

To learn more about information needs and satisfaction with provided information among cancer patients and whether dissatisfaction with information has any association with how therapy decisions are made. An online survey was conducted during March 2015 and January 2016 by the German non-profit patient organization "Das Lebenshaus e.V.

Information needs and usage of complementary and alternative medicine in members of a German self-help group for gastrointestinal stroma tumours, sarcoma, and renal cancer.

Objective: 40-50% of German cancer patients use some method of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and both patients and doctors often feel insufficiently informed. We examined the information-seeking behaviour and satisfaction with information on patients' interest in CAM and the therapy decision.

Design And Setting: An anonymous, voluntary online survey was conducted among the members of "Das Lebenshaus e.