Comparative Analysis of Homeopathic Treatment Approaches in Cancer: A Research Perspective

Abstract

Current data on cancer incidence and mortality underscore the urgent need to strengthen existing treatment infrastructure, which remains inadequate to address the increasing demands. This situation has prompted research into the efficacy of various homeopathic approaches in cancer treatment. Single blind, prospective, observational clinical study and the sample size was fixed at 40 cases using systematic purposive sampling. The cancer diagnostics, we used their approaches such as Kent, German New Medicine (GNM), and Boenninghausen-Boger (BB). Results of the cancer diagnostics among the treatment approaches, the Kent method demonstrated a statistically significant effect, with an odds ratio (OR) of 3.947 (95% CI: 1.305–51.411, p < 0.05), indicating that moderate improvement was approximately four times more likely compared to mild improvement, using the Organopathic approach as the reference. The German New Medicine GNM approach showed an OR of 2.399 (95% CI: 0.603–46.649, p = 0.05), suggesting moderate improvement was about twice as likely compared to mild improvement; however, this effect was statistically insignificant relative to the Organopathic approach. The BB approach (OR = 1.621; 95% CI: 0.261–35.427, p > 0.05) showed no significant effect on the predicted results. Regarding sex, with female as the reference category, the odds ratio was 0.028 (95% CI: 0.002–0.376, p < 0.05), indicating a statistically significant impact of sex on the outcome. The Kent approach was moderately more effective than the other methods and reached statistical significance..