The role of chinese medicine in cancer palliative care

Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Hong Kong Chinese Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 195-208

  Ng, Siu Man ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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