The impact of complementary and alternative medicines on cancer symptoms, treatment side effects, quality of life, and survival in women with breast cancer - A systematic review

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 373-391

  Leggett, S ^a   Koczwara, B ^a   Miller, M ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE;

ACTAEA RACEMOSA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG CAPSULE; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG SAFETY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GANODERMA LUCIDUM; GINSENG; GUARANA; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIQUID; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORAL MUCOSITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POWDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TABLET; BREAST NEOPLASMS; MORTALITY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY;

GANODERMA LUCIDUM; PAULLINIA CUPANA;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHYTOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REISHI;

EID: 84926522835     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: 15327914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2015.1004731     Document Type: Article

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