A systematic review of guided imagery as an adjuvant cancer therapy

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 607-617

  Roffe, Liz ^a   Schmidt, Katja ^b   Ernst, Edzard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN;

ANXIETY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; EMOTIONALITY; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NAUSEA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); NEOPLASMS;

EID: 23744482054     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.889     Document Type: Review

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