Complementary and alternative medicine use amongst Malaysian orthopaedic oncology patients

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dhanoa, Amreeta ^a   Yong, Tze Lek ^a   Yeap, Stephanie Jin Leng ^a   Lee, Isaac Shi Zhung ^a   Singh, Vivek Ajit ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Alternative; CAM; Cancer; Complementary medicine; Oncology; Orthopaedic; Tumour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHANA STRIATUS; CHILD; CHINESE MEDICINE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ENERGY THERAPY; FISH; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC ONCOLOGY PATIENT; PATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRIC PATIENT; PHYSICAL WELL-BEING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEA CUCUMBER; SLEEP QUALITY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TRADITIONAL MASSAGE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; MALAYSIA; MALE; ORTHOPEDICS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921961273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-14-404     Document Type: Article

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