Alternative care: Patient choices for adjunct therapies within a cancer center

Cancer Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 176-181

  Coss, Rari A ^a   McGrath, Patricia ^b,c   Caggiano, Vincent ^a  

^a Sutter Medical Center   (United States)

^b SUTTER HEALTH   (United States)

^c Access Health Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative care; Cancer; Complementary medicine; Healing; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHINESE MEDICINE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MUSIC THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031969629     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5394.1998.006003176.x     Document Type: Article

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