Shopping for nutrition-based complementary and alternative medicine on the internet: How much money might cancer patients be spending online?

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 174-176

  Alsawaf, Mohammad Anas ^a   Jatoi, Aminah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN TEA EXTRACT; LYCOPENE; UBIDECARENONE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER PATIENT; COST; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERNET; NUTRITION; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35348905118     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03174332     Document Type: Article

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