Complementary and alternative medicine use and breast cancer prognosis: A pooled analysis of four population-based studies of breast cancer survivors

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1252-1258

  Matsuno, Rayna Kim ^a   Pagano, Ian S ^a   Maskarinec, Gertraud ^a   Issell, Brian F ^a   Gotay, Carolyn C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAWAII; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84870802712     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2012.3698     Document Type: Article

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