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Alternative Medicine Co-Using: Important Consideration for Nurse

Sora Yasri, Viroj Wiwanitkit

Abstract


Cancer is an important group of medical problem in medicine. The cancerous patient is usually hopeless due to the lack of effective modern treatment. Seeking for any possible treatments to cure the disease is the basic hope and becomes a common behavior of the cancerous patients. It is of no doubt that the cancerous patient usually seeks for alternative medicine. The alternative medicine co-usage among cancerous patient is common. The oncological nurses should concern on this fact in their clinical practice.

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