The correlation of traditional chinese medicine deficiency syndromes, cancer related fatigue, and quality of life in breast cancer patients

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 204-210

  Chien, Tsai Ju ^a,b   Song, You Lung ^a,b   Lin, Che Pin ^c   Hsu, Chung Hua ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Division of Radiation Oncology   (Taiwan)

^d Taiwan Association for Traditional Chinese Medicine of Family   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer related Fatigue; Deficiency syndromes; Quality of life; Traditional Chinese Medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883325661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22254110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2225-4110(16)30101-8     Document Type: Article

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