Evaluating complementary and alternative therapies for cancer patients
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Evaluating complementary and alternative therapies for cancer patients.
"Complementary and alternative" therapies are actually a vast collection of disparate, unrelated regimens and products, ranging from adjunctive modalities that effectively enhance quality of life and promising antitumor herbal remedies now under investigation, to bogus therapies that claim to cure cancer and that harm not only directly, but also indirectly by encouraging patients to avoid or po...
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عنوان ژورنال: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0007-9235
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.49.6.362