Exploratory studies of Qigong therapy for cancer in China

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 345-370

  Chen, Kevin ^a   Yeung, Raphael ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BREATHING EXERCISE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CELL CULTURE; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; KINESIOTHERAPY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QIGONG THERAPY; REVIEW; SELF CARE;

ANIMALS; BREATHING EXERCISES; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0041693769     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735402238187     Document Type: Review

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