Randomised controlled trials of yoga interventions for women with breast cancer: A systematic literature review

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3055-3064

  Harder, H ^a   Parlour, L ^a   Jenkins, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Quality of life; Randomised controlled trial; Yoga

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MASTECTOMY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MOOD; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PERSONAL APPEARANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEIGHT CHANGE; WOUND HEALING; YOGA;

AFFECT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIND-BODY THERAPIES; NAUSEA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOGA;

EID: 84868465084     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1611-8     Document Type: Review

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