Cancer patients' experience of combined treatment with conventional and traditional Chinese medicine: A biopsychosocial phenomenon

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 495-502

  Liu, Chun Hao ^a   Tang, Woung Ru ^b   Wang, Hung Ming ^c   Lee, Ko Chen ^d  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; medicine; Qualitative research; Traditional Chinese

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOPATHY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMEDICINE; CANCER PATIENT; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; TAIWAN;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80255122818     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31820d4da9     Document Type: Article

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