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Acupoint Application Combined with Acupressure as an Adjunctive Therapy for Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting
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Gabriel Lopez1, Cathy Eng2, Michael Overman3
1Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Unit 1414, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. gabriel.lopez@mdanderson.org.
Scientific Reports
|May 23, 2023
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