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Research Updates: cancer
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Issue 113
POMMIER and co-workers, Department of Radiation Oncology, Centre Leon Berard, 28 rue Laennec, 69373 Lyon Cedex 08, France, have tested Calendula for the prevention of dermatitis during irradiation for breast cancer.
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Issue 113
THELEN and colleagues, Department of Urology, Institute of Human Genetics, Georg-August-University, Gottingen, Germany, have researched the inhibition of telomerase activity and secretion of prostate specific antigen by silibinin in prostate cancer cells.
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Issue 112
CUI and others, Department of Medicine, Center for Health Services Research and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN37232-8300, USA, have investigated the use of complementary and alternative medicine by Chinese women with breast cancer.
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Issue 112
LI and colleagues, Department of Hematology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China, have studied the prevention of stomach cancer by selenium and garlic.
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Issue 112
GOODMAN and co-workers, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avene North, Building M, M1-B514, Seattle, WA 98109, USA, gary.goodman@swedish.org, have reported on the 6-year follow-up of the beta-carotene an1
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Issue 112
VICKERS and co-workers, Integrative Medicine Service and Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY10021, USA, vickers.a@mskcc.org, have studied acupuncture for post-chemotherapy fatigue.
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Issue 110
GENKINGER and co-workers, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA, have studied the link between fruit, vegetables, and antioxidant consumption and death from cancer and cardiovascula1
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Issue 110
ROSENBAUM, SPIEGEL and colleagues, Stanford Cancer Supportive Care Program, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, 1101 Welch Road, Bldg. A, Ste. 6, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, ernie@lmi.net, have evaluated a programme of supportive cancer care 1
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Issue 110
KOLSTAD and co-workers, Department of Oncology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0310, Oslo, Norway, arnkolst@online.no, have investigated the use of complementary and alternative medicine amongst oncology health professionals in Norway.
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Issue 109
MARTARELLI and others, Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Experimental Medicine, University of Camerino, ViaMarcello Scalzino 3, Camerino (MC) 62032, Italy, daniele.martarelli@unicam.it, have found that St John'1
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Issue 109
SINGH and AGARWAL, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Cancer Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO 80262, USA, have reviewed (118 references) the prevention of prostate cancer by silibinin. Abstract: On1
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Issue 109
WRIGHT and co-workers, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA, wrighmar@mail.nih.gov, have developed a comprehensive dietary antioxidant index and applied it to eva1
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Issue 108
ANDERSON and colleagues, School of Biological Sciences/C0900, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA, have observed a differential response of human ovarian cancer cells to induction of programmed cell death (apoptosis) by vitamin E succinate and the vitamin E analo1
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Issue 108
RAJENDRAN, Vinayaka Mission's Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Salem 636 308, India. rajendranes@eth.net, has written a case study on homeopathy as supportive therapy in cancer. Abstract: Three case1
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Issue 107
FELLOWES and colleagues, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research and Development Unit, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK,1
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Issue 107
FRAZIER and others, Division of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA. lindsay.frazier@channing.harvard.edu, have related adolescent diet to risk of breast cancer.
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Issue 107
HECKMAYR, Zentrum fur Pneumologie und Thoraxchirurgie Krankenhaus Grosshansdorf, m.heckmayr@gmx.net, has reviewed (68 references) studies on the chemoprevention of lung cancer. Abstract: Despite improvements i1
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Issue 106
CLERICI and co-workers, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Perugia, Italy, clerici@unipg.it, have tested the treatment of liver cancer with all-trans-retinoic acid plus tamoxifen and vitamin E.
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Issue 106
DUDEK and colleagues, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Bialystok have investigated the activity of antioxidant enzymes in human brain tumours.
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Issue 106
ROSSMAN, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, USA, mrmd555@aol.com, reports on an interactive Guided Imagery technique which accesses the strengths of patients during cancer treatment.



