The Experience of Indigenous Traditional Healing and Cancer

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-23

  Struthers, Roxanne ^a   Eschiti, Valerie S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian; Cancer; Complementary and alternative medicine; Indigenous healing; Integrative medicine; Traditional healing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG CANCER; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SARCOMA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA;

EID: 1242276309     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735403261833     Document Type: Article

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