Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 33, Issue 3 , Pages 258-266 , March 2007

Symptom Management with Massage and Acupuncture in Postoperative Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

,Accepted 4 September 2006.

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 Funding for this study was provided by the Mount Zion Health Fund, San Francisco, California.The authors confirm that this material is original research and has not been published otherwise, with the exception of a presentation at the 2005 Bay Area Research Symposium, San Francisco, October 2005 and a poster presentation at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine, May 2006, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

PII: S0885-3924(06)00723-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2006.09.016

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 33, Issue 3 , Pages 258-266 , March 2007

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