Use of alternative medicine by women with early-stage breast cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 1733-1739

  Burstein, Harold J ^c   Gelber, Shari ^c   Guadagnoli, Edward ^a   Weeks, Jane C ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033519663     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199906033402206     Document Type: Article

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