Use of complementary and alternative medicine among breast cancer survivors

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4081-4086

  Saibul, Nurfaizah ^a,b   Shariff, Zalilah Mohd ^a   Rahmat, Asmah ^a   Sulaiman, Suhaina ^c   Yaw, Yong Heng ^a  

^a Faculty of Science   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer survivors; Cam; Ethnicity; Malaysia; Years of education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873619023     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.8.4081     Document Type: Article

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