Hypnosis in breast cancer care: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-15

  Cramer, Holger ^a   Lauche, Romy ^a   Paul, Anna ^a   Langhorst, Jost ^a   Kümmel, Sherko ^b   Dobos, Gustav J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Cancer survivors; Hypnosis; Radiotherapy; Review; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MEDICAL HISTORY; NAUSEA; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR BIOPSY; VOMITING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84918532075     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735414550035     Document Type: Review

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