Integrating acupuncture into cancer care

Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 234-239

  Chien, Tsai Ju ^a,b   Liu, Chia Yu ^a,b,c   Hsu, Chung Hua ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Cancer; Oncology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894577333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22254110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2225-4110.119733     Document Type: Article

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