Use of Alternative Medicine by Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Open Access
- 3 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 340 (22), 1733-1739
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199906033402206
Abstract
We analyzed the use of alternative medicine by women who had received standard therapy for early-stage breast cancer diagnosed between September 1993 and September 1995.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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