Portrayal of complementary and alternative medicine for cancer by top online news sites

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 487-493

  Price, Alexandra ^a   Grann, Victor R ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLON CANCER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH BELIEF; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET PROTOCOL; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIPLE CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLICATION; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION THERAPY; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862086837     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: 15577708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2011.0110     Document Type: Article

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