Supportive cancer care using chinese medicine

Supportive Cancer Care with Chinese Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-37

  Wong, Raimond ^a   Sagar, Stephen M ^a  

^a JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3555-4_1     Document Type: Chapter

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