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January 12, 2012BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineOpen Access

Any difference? Use of a CAM provider among cancer patients, coronary heart disease (CHD) patients and individuals with no cancer/CHD

Agnete E. Kristoffersen Arne Johan Norheim Vinjar Fønnebø

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According to this study, the proportion of cancer patients seeing a CAM provider was not statistically significantly different from patients with CHD or individuals without cancer or CHD.

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Kristoffersen et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69deac5f210a0977fce95332 https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-12-1

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