Mindfulness-based stress reduction for integrative cancer care - A summary of evidence

Forschende Komplementarmedizin

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 192-202

  Musial, Frauke ^a   Büssing, Arndt ^b   Heusser, Peter ^b   Choi, Kyung Eun ^c   Ostermann, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Integrative oncology; MBSR; Meta analysis; Mind body relation; Mindfulness; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; MEDITATION; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

HUMANS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MEDITATION; MIND-BODY THERAPIES; NEOPLASMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80053168257     PISSN: 16614119     EISSN: 16614127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330714     Document Type: Review

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