Select complementary/alternative therapies for prostate cancer: The benefits and risks

Cancer Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 253-255

  Smith, M ^a   Mills, E J ^a  

^a CANADIAN COLLEGE OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARCTIUM LAPPA EXTRACT; CNICUS BENEDICTUS EXTRACT; ESSIAC; FLOR ESSENCE; GANODERMA LUCIDUM EXTRACT; ISATIS INDIGOTICA EXTRACT; NASTURTIUM OFFICINALE EXTRACT; PC SPES; RABDOSIA RUCESCENS EXTRACT; RED CLOVER EXTRACT; RESPIRIGIN; RUMEX ACETOSELLA EXTRACT; SABAL EXTRACT; SCUTELLARIA BAICALENSIS EXTRACT; SELENIUM; ULMUS FULVA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CANCER THERAPY; CHRYSANTHEMUM; FUCUS; GINSENG; GLYCYRRHIZA; HERB; HUMAN; PROSTATE CANCER; RHUBARB; SHORT SURVEY;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, HERBAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELENIUM;

EID: 0034821160     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5394.2001.009005253.x     Document Type: Article

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