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Research Updates: cancer
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Issue 45
THOMAS, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio USA writes that disease of the prostate gland, particularly adenocarcinoma and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are age-relat1
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Issue 44
BURSTEIN and colleagues, Department of Adult Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA analysed the use of alternative medicine by women who had received s1
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Issue 44
WARRICK and colleagues, Wharton Head and Neck Centre, The Toronto Hospital/Princess Margaret Hospital, Ontario, Canada studied the prevalence of alternative medicine use in head and neck cancer patients and its correlation wit1
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Issue 44
RICHARDSON and colleagues, University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health USA review the literature (59 references) and write that, despite the widespread practice of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM), rese1
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Issue 44
ALBANES, Cancer Prevention Studies branch, Division of Clinical Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7058 USA. daa@nih.gov writes that the conflicting evidence of the relation between beta-carotene and lung cancer1
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Issue 43
VERHOEF and colleagues, Department of Community Health Sciences, The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. mverhoef@ucalgary.ca write that alternative therapy use in brain tumour patients is unknown, but tha1
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NAGATA and colleagues, Department of Public Health, Gifu University, School of Medicine, Japan studied the relationship of dietary and serum vitamin A to subsequent cervical cancer .
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Issue 43
ELATTAR and VIRJI, Hormone Research Laboratory, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Dentistry 64108 USA researched the effect of treating human tongue cancer cells with vitamin E .
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Issue 43
ASANO and colleagues, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan investigated the antitumour action of the derivative of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), sodium 5,6-benzylidene-L-ascorbate (SBA), to1
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Issue 43
WITENBERG and colleagues, Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel studied the effect of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) loading upon apopto sis in the
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Issue 42
KOLCABA and FOX, College of Nursing, University of Akron, Ohio USA researched the effectiveness of customised guided imagery for increasing comfort in women with early stage breast cancer unde1
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Issue 42
ZHANG and colleagues, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA 02115 USA. Shumin.Zhang@channing.harvard.edu studied the associations between dietary intakes of carotenoids, vitamins A, C and E, consumption of1
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Issue 42
ZHOU and colleagues, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, Valhalla NY 10595 USA investigated the relationship between diet and the risk of lung cancer among women in China.
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Issue 42
ROOMI and colleagues, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331 USA write that in recent years L-ascorbic acid (AA) and its isomers have raised considerable interest as anticanc1
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Issue 41
GROTHEY and colleagues, Abteilung fur Hamatologie und Onkologie, Universitat von Texas, Germany write that up to 60% of all cancer patients use alternative medicine during the course of their illness. Although demographic char1
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Issue 41
ERNST and CASSILETH, Department of Complementary Medicine, Postgraduate Medical School, University of Exeter, UK write that complementary/alternative cancer treatments are believed to be prevalent, but that re1
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Issue 41
JATOI and colleagues, Department of Medicine, Tufts University and New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111 USA. Jatoi_bf@hnrc.tufts.edu conducted a cross-sectional study of postoperative non-small cell lung can1
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Issue 41
KASSEROLLER, Wittlingers Therapy Center, Walchsee, Austria conducted a randomised, double-blind study to determine the efficacy of sodium selenite in combination with physical therapy to1
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Issue 41
NISHINA, Department of Biochemistry, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyoku, Kyoto 602, Japan writes that epidemiological investigations have demonstrated that cancer risk is inversel1
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Issue 40
CLARK and colleagues, Arizona Cancer Center, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson 85716 USA tested whether supplemental dietary selenium is associated with changed incidence of prostate cancer .
