Extracts from the Cochrane Library: homeopathic medicines for adverse effects of cancer treatments

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Martin J Burton et al. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009 Aug.

. 2009 Aug;141(2):162-5.

doi: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.06.081.

¹ Department of Otolaryngology, University of Oxford and The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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A more skeptical review of homeopathy.
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Homeopathic medicines for adverse effects of cancer treatments.
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Extracts from The Cochrane Library: Erythropoietin as an adjuvant treatment with (chemo) radiation therapy for head and neck cancer.
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