Use of alternative cancer medicine in India

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 394-395

  Pai, Sanjoy K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INDIA; LEUKEMIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; FEMALE; LETTER; MALE; NEOPLASM;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036637438     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(02)00782-9     Document Type: Letter

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