Use of complementary and alternative medicine in patients with gynecologic cancer: Is this usage more prevalent?

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 347-349

  Kav, Sultan ^a   Pinar, Gul ^a   Gullu, Fatma ^b   Turker, Tulay ^b   Elibol, Sibel ^b   Dogan, Nevin ^a   Algier, Lale ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOE VERA EXTRACT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAMELLIA SINENSIS EXTRACT; CROCUS SATIVUS EXTRACT; GINGER EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LINUM USITATISSIMUM EXTRACT; URTICA DIOICA EXTRACT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; DIARRHEA; GRAPE JUICE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NAUSEA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URTICA DIOICA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 43749118400     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2008.0019     Document Type: Letter

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