Exploring the temporal dimension in cancer patients' experiences of nonbiomedical therapeutics

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1650-1661

  Broom, Alex ^a   Tovey, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Complementary and alternative medicine; Healing; Integrative therapies; Lived experience; Sociology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NODULAR LYMPHOCYTE PREDOMINANT HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56549107446     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308326511     Document Type: Article

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