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Research Updates: cancer
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Issue 36
ARAKAWA, Fukushima Medical College, Japan studied the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) to reduce nausea, vomiting and anxiety associated with chemotherapy.
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Issue 36
FINSTAD and colleagues, Institute for Nutrition Research, University of Oslo, and The Norwegian Radium Hospital write that polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may reduce cell multiplication in normal and transformed white blood1
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Issue 36
GORINGE and colleagues, Department of Haematology, University Hospital of Wales, College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK write that hepatic (liver) veno-occlusive disease (VOD) of the liver is a common complication following administ1
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Issue 35
HARDELL and colleagues, Onkologiska Kliniken, Regionsjukhuset, Orebro, Sweden conducted a questionnaire study to determine the use and prevalence of alternative medicine treatment among cancer patients .
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Issue 35
GRAY and colleagues, Ontario Breast Cancer Information Exchange Project, Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Canada conducted a survey questionnaire with purchasers of A Guide to Unconventional Cancer Therapies, produced by the Ontario 1
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CHAU and colleagues, Institute of Anatomy, School of Life Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan report that beta-lapachone, a new topoisomerase inhibitor (enzymes which regulate DNA supercoiling and which can introduce transient brea1
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Issue 35
ZHAO and colleagues, Division of Nutrition and Endocrinology, American Health Foundation, Valhalla, New York 10595 USA write that epidemiological and clinical research data suggest that tomato consumption may reduce the risk of cancer.1
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Issue 34
DE STEFANI and colleagues, Registro Nacional de Cancer, Montevideo, Uruguay conducted a case-control study between 1994-96 to investigate the relationship between the frequency of intake of different types of fat and breast cancer
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Issue 34
FRENG and colleagues, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway studied the influence of social, dietary and environmental factors upon incidence of upper digestive tract cancers and upon the1
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NAVARRO and colleagues, Department of Nutrition and Bromatology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Spain . nalarcon@platon.ugr.es conducted a cross-sectional study of serum 1
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Issue 33
VARIS and colleagues, National Public Health Institute, and Dept of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland write that vitamin E and beta-carotene are thought to decrease risk of gastric cancer in humans and animal1
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Issue 33
KISHIMOTO and colleagues, School of Life Environmental Science, Mukogawa Womens University, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan conducted a study, in mice, regarding the effectiveness of vitamin E in the prevention of lung cancer.
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KURASHIGE and colleagues, Department of Medical Technology, College of Medical Care and Technology, Gunma University, Japan studied the effects of a Chinese herbal product upon carcinogenesis.
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Issue 32
FERNANDEZ and colleagues, Department of Pediatrics, and University of British Columbia School of Nursing, British Columbias Childrens Hospital, Vancouver Canada write that alternative and complementary therapies are infrequently stu1
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KAEGI, National Cancer Institute of Canada, Toronto, Ontario writes that doctors and patients have been frustrated by the lack of reliable information regarding unconventional treatment therapies.
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Issue 32
RISBERG and colleagues, Institute of Community Medicine, University Hospital of Tromso, Norway studied patients attitudes to and use of nonproven therapies (NPTs) in relation to their opinions regarding the causes of canc1
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BUIATTI, Centro Di Documentazione per la Salute (CDS), Bologna, Italy defines chemoprevention as the use of compounds or medicines to prevent the occurrence of precancerous lesions or to slow down or reverse th1
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Issue 32
SAMAREL, Department of Nursing, William Paterson College of New Jersey, Wayne, USA describes the development of a nursing intervention with the potential to help women have more positive experiences during time of breast cancer1
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Issue 32
KWASNIEWSKA and colleagues, I Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Lublin Medical Academy, Poland studied the level of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) in the blood serum of female patients infected with the human Papillomavirus (1
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Issue 32
VAN POPPEL and colleagues, TNO Nutrition, Zeist, the Netherlands write that the use of biomarkers is a promising approach to the study of human cancer risk and that bronchial metaplasia
