Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Patients with Cancer

Overview

Journal Prim Care Companion CNS Disord

Specialties Neurology
Psychiatry
Public Health

Date 2011 Oct 7

PMID 21977340

Citations 4

Authors

Carmen L Watkins

Carlos Fernandez-Robles

Kathleen M Miller

Alexander Pine

Theodore A Stern

Affiliations

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