The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Korean Breast Cancer Women: Is It Associated with Severity of Symptoms?

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hwang, Jung Hye ^a   Kim, Woon Yong ^a   Ahmed, Mansoor ^a   Choi, Soojeung ^a   Kim, Jiwoo ^a   Han, Dong Woon ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIVITAMIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GINSENG; HEALTH SURVEY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; KOREAN (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDITATION; MUSHROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SOUTH KOREA; SOUTH KOREAN; YOGA;

EID: 84949748463     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/182475     Document Type: Article

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