User rate of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) of patients visiting a counseling facility for CAM of a German comprehensive cancer center

Anticancer Research

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 943-948

  Huebner, Jutta ^a   Micke, Oliver ^b   Muecke, Ralph ^c   Buentzel, Jens ^d   Prott, Franz Josef ^e   Kleeberg, Ulrich ^f   Senf, Bianca ^g   Muenstedt, Karsten ^h  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c LIPPE HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^d Nordhausen Clinic   (Germany)

^e RNS Praxisgemeins Chaft   (Germany)

^f Tagesklinik Struensee Haus   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^h Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics University Hospital Gieinnodatabetaen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude of cancer patients; Complementary medicine; User behavior

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOPATHY; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; ONCOLOGIST; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; ATTITUDE OF CANCER PATIENTS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; USER BEHAVIOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF CANCER PATIENTS; COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE; USER BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84897113523     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: 17917530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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