Mistletoe: From Basic Research to Clinical Outcomes in Cancer and Other Indications
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1 Research Institute Havelhöhe (FIH), Havelhöhe Hospital, 14089 Berlin, Germany 2Department of Oncology, Havelhöhe Hospital, 14089 Berlin, Germany 3 Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medicine, 14089 Berlin, Germany 4 Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58313 Herdecke, Germany 5 Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology, University of Witten/Herdecke, 79111 Freiburg, Germany 6Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK 7 INSERM U1138, Université Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France 8 College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19129, USA
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دوره 2014 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2014