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Research Updates: cancer
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Issue 60
ALBINO and colleagues, The American Health Foundation, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA. talbino@aol.com investigated cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in melanoma cells1
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Issue 59
Gotay and Dumitriu, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Honolulu 96813, USA. cgotay@crch.hawaii.edu examined health food store recommendations for breast cance1
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Issue 59
Rees and colleagues, SSRU, Institute of Education, University of London, 18 Woburn Square, WC1H 0NS, London, UK. r.rees@ioe.ac.uk conducted a study into the prevalence of complementary therapy use by women with breast 1
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Issue 59
Nakagawa and colleagues, Department of Surgery II, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan investigated the effects of genistein and synergistic action in combination with eicosapentaenoic a1
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Issue 59
GUNAWARDENA, MURRAY and MEIKLE, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132, USA investigated whether vitamin E and other antioxidants
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Issue 58
BOON and colleagues, Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. heather.boon@utoronto.ca described the use of complementary/alternative medicine by breast cancer su1
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Issue 58
ISRAEL, YU and KLINE, Division of Nutrition, University of Texas at Austin 78712, USA described how Vitamin E succinate induces apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells.
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Issue 58
KARAS and colleagues, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Yoav@bgumail.bgu.ac.il described how lycopene interferes with cell c1
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Issue 58
RICHARDSON and colleagues, Centers for Alternative Medicine Research and Health Promotion Research and Development, The University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA surveyed complementary alternative medicine use in a comprehen1
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Issue 58
SASAKI and colleagues, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute East, 6-5-1 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8577, Japan. Stssasak@east.ncc.go.jp described, prior to conduct1
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Issue 57
HILL, European Cancer Prevention Organization, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. tres.edit@home-office1.demon.co.uk reviewed (33 references) the mechanisms of diet and colon carcin1
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Issue 57
ARBISER and colleagues, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. jlarbiser@bics.bwh.harvard.edu investigated whether Curcumin is an inhibitor of angiogenesis.
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Issue 57
GANDINI and colleagues, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatics, European Institute of Oncology, Via Ripamonti 435, 20141, Milan, Italy. sara.gandini@ieo.it performed a meta-analysis on the role of fruit an1
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Issue 57
GHALAUT, SINGH and GUPTA, Dept of Medicine (Unit-VI) and Haematology, Pt BD Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak set out to investigate Serum vitamin E levels in patients of chronic myeloid leukaemia.
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Issue 56
VINCETI and colleagues, Department of Hygiene, Microbiology & Biostatistics, University of Modena and Reggio Emila, Modena, Italy reviewed (133 references) the link between the trace element selenium and the aetiology of cancer.
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Issue 56
CASCINU and colleagues, Section of Experimental Oncology, Azienda Osedaliera S. Salvatoire, Pesaro, Italy set out to investigate calcium and vitamin supplementation on colorectal cell proliferation.
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Issue 56
LIU, Shen and ONG, Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore investigated the effect of a Chinese herbal medicine (Salvia miltiorrhiza) on human hepatic cells.
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Issue 56
VAN FLEET, Psychiatry Section, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA. vanfleet@audumla.mdacc.tmc.edu reviews the use of relaxation and imagery for symptom management in ca1
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Issue 55
BABU and colleagues, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Dr. ALM Post-Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras, Taramani Campus, Chennai, India. studied the effects of co-administration of vitamins C and E with tamoxifen treat1
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Issue 55
SHIRATAKI and colleagues, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai University, Saitama, Japan compared the cytotoxicity of grape seed extracts with grape peel extracts upon human oral tumour cells lines.