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Research Updates: cancer
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Issue 31
PATTERSON and colleagues, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA USA reviews (89 references) published epidemiological research regarding the association of vitamin and mineral supplementation and cancer risk.
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Issue 31
HARRISON and colleagues, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, CRC Beatson Laboratories, Glasgow, Scotland UK review (100 references) the very convincing evidence that a high dietary level of selenium significantly reduced the incidence of a w1
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Issue 31
COMBS and colleagues, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA tested the hypothesis that a dietary supplement of selenium (Se) may reduce the risk of cancer.
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Issue 31
LA VECCHIA and DECARLI, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano Italy write that following early increases, mortality rates from oesophageal cancer have levelled off in Italy over the past two decades a1
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Issue 30
BREWER and colleagues, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCI Medical Center, University of California, Irvine, Orange USA conducted a phase III randomised trial to evaluate oral beta carotene and placebo treatment in cervical cancer
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Issue 30
ROSE, Division of Nutrition and Endocrinology, American Health Foundation, Valhalla, New York 10595 USA writes that epidemiological studies indicate that levels of dietary fat intake and the nature of constituent fatty acids influence breast an1
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Issue 30
PAPPALARDO and colleagues, Institute of II Clinica Chirurgica University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy 1) compared tissue and plasma carotenoids status in healthy subjects and patients with pre-cancer and cancer lesions and 2) evaluated the effect1
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Issue 30
BRAGA and colleagues, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milan, Italy conducted a case-control study to investigate the relationship between foods and nutrients and breast cancer risk by age and menopausal status strata.
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Issue 29
PATTISON, Chemotherapy Day Unit, Sunderland Royal Hospital UK write that the psychological and physical consequences of cancer threaten the wellbeing and quality of life of patients (Fallowfield 1991). The needs of patients are wide-ra1
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Issue 29
SPAULDING-ALBRIGHT, Boca Raton Community Hospital Inc, Fla 33486 USA write that in view of progress regarding benefits of phytochemicals in foods, it would appear possible that chemical compounds from herbs could also be helpfu1
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Issue 29
RICHARDSON and colleagues, Center for Alternative Medicine Research, University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health USA conducted a pilot study to study the effects of imagery and support upon coping, life attitudes, immune function, quali1
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Issue 29
ZHANG and colleagues, Department of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Research Institute International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo write that Helicobacter pylori infection is a risk factor for gastric cancer and that a
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Issue 28
SANKARANARAYANAN and colleagues, Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon France conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled trial to study the chemopreventive potential of vitamin A alone or beta caro1
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Issue 28
SLATTERY and colleagues, Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84108 USA write that levels of triglycerides, glucose and insulin are related to colon cancer risk and that high levels of simple sugars in the diet1
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Issue 28
SARKAR and colleagues, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India writes that beta-carotene (BC) has been found to possess potent anti-tumour activity in liver carcinogenesis chemically induced (by di1
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Issue 28
JOHNSON and colleagues, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at tufts University, Boston MA 02111 USA conducted a double-blind study to evaluate beta-carotene and lycopene responses following ingestion of individual and comb1
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Issue 27
LEKANDER and colleagues, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden write that psychological intervention strategies, such as relaxation training have been used to strengthen r1
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Issue 27
SPIEGEL and MOORE, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California USA write that patients with cancer often use techniques such as imagery and hypnosis as ways of connecting1
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Issue 27
MAZIERE and colleagues, Labaoratoire de Toxicologie Alimentaire, Universite Bordeaux I, Talence, France write that the mechanism by which vitamin A prevents or delays carcinogenesis is still unclear. Vitamin A, in addi1
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Issue 27
FLEET, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111 USA writes that research studies examining the relationship between dietary selenium intake and cancer risk have demonstrated that low s1