Use of complementary and alternative medicine by cancer patients at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ezeome, Emmanuel R ^a   Anarado, Agnes N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOE VERA EXTRACT; BLACK TEA EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; VITAMIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIET THERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIZZINESS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NIGERIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SPIRITUAL HEALING; STOMACH DISCOMFORT; URINARY FREQUENCY; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEAKNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NIGERIA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 35448952232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-7-28     Document Type: Article

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