Complementary alternative treatments used by patients with cancer in Eastern Turkey

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 230-236

  Gözüm, Sebahat ^a   Tezel, Ayfer ^b   Koc, Mehmet ^b  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Cancer patients; Complementary; Herbal therapies; Prevalence; Stinging nettle (urtica dioica); Turkey

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHAMOMILE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; URTICA DIOICA EXTRACT;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URTICA DIOICA;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYTOTHERAPY; TURKEY; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 0038780774     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200306000-00010     Document Type: Article

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