The potential of a person-centered approach in caring for patients with cancer: A perspective from the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-62

  Hui, Ka Kit ^a,b   Hui, Edward K ^a,b   Johnston, Michael Francis ^a  

^a Eastern Center for Complementary Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Integrative medicine; Oncology; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; COIX EXTRACT; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; GABAPENTIN; GRANISETRON; MORPHINE SULFATE; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOMITING;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; CALIFORNIA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 32944460857     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735405286109     Document Type: Review

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