Homeopathic medicines for adverse effects of cancer treatments

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kassab, Sosie ^a   Cummings, Mike ^b   Berkovitz, Saul ^a   Van Haselen, Robbert ^c   Fisher, Peter ^a  

^a UCL Hospitals NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b British Medical Acupuncture Society   (United Kingdom)

^c INTMEDI   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDUM ARSENICOSUM D6; AESTHUSEA D2; AMYL NITRATE; ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM D6; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APOMORPHIUM HYDROCHLORICUM D4; ARGENTUM NITRICUM D6; ARNICA MONTANA D2; BELLADONNA ALKALOID; BIAFINE; CALENDULA EXTRACT; CARBO VEGETABLIS D6; CAUSTICUM 30; COBALTUM 30; COCCULINE; COLCHICUM D4; FLUOCORTOLONE; GASTRICUMEEL; HOMEOPATHIC AGENT; IGNATIA D4; IPECACUANHA D2; MOUTHWASH; NUX VOMICA D2; NUX VOMICA D4; PLACEBO; PULSATILLA D4; SAMBUCUS NIGRA D3; TAMOXIFEN; TRAUMEEL S; TRIETHANOLAMINE SALICYLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOMITUSHEEL S;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ALLERGY; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARNICA MONTANA; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CALENDULA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER THERAPY; CANNULATION; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED STOMATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLCHICUM; DERMATITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOMA; HISTOLOGY; HOMEOPATHY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MORNING DOSAGE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PELVIS CANCER; PHYSICIAN; PROPHYLAXIS; PRURITUS; PULSATILLA; RADIATION SICKNESS; RADIOTHERAPY INDUCED DERMATITIS; REVIEW; SAMBUCUS NIGRA; SANGUINARIA; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STOMATITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX CANCER; TOOTHBRUSH; TREATMENT DURATION; URTICARIA; VOMITING;

EID: 70349113152     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004845.pub2     Document Type: Review

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