Discussing complementary therapy use with early-stage breast cancer patients: Exploring the communication gap

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 168-176

  Juraskova, Ilona ^a   Hegedus, Leonard ^a   Butow, Phyllis ^a   Smith, Allan ^a   Schofield, Penelope ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

anxiety; breast cancer; coding system; complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); doctor patient communication; oncology

Indexed keywords

PHYTOESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONSULTATION; COUNSELING; DIET THERAPY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY CANCER; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; YOGA; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDUCATION; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 77954205871     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735410365712     Document Type: Article

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