Complementary medicine for fatigue and cortisol variability in breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 777-787

  Jain, Shamini ^a,b   Pavlik, Desiree ^b   Distefan, Janet ^b   Bruyere, Reverend Rosalyn L ^c   Acer, Julia ^b   Garcia, Rosalie ^b   Coulter, Ian ^d   Ives, John ^a   Roesch, Scott C ^d   Jonas, Wayne ^a   Mills, Paul J ^b  

^a SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Healing Light Center Church   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

biofield; breast; cancer; complementary; complementary and alternative medicine; cortisol; fatigue; healing; immune; randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOFIELD HEALING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOCK HEALING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84856261550     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26345     Document Type: Article

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