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Issue 48
CHEW and colleagues, Department Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-6320 USA. boonchew@wsu.edu studied, in mice, the anticancer activities of beta-carotene, astaxanthin and canthaxanthin against the growth of br1
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Issue 47
REINHARDT , Ambulanz fur Hamatologie und Onkologie, Klinikum Bayreuth, Germany studied the influence of musical rhythm upon synchronisation and coordination of heart rate in cancer patients with chroni1
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YU and colleagues, School of Public Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei Taiwan write that experimental and epidemiological research has linked a low dietary selenium in1
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NIWA and colleagues, Department of Obstetrics, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan. Kniwa@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp studied, in mice, the effects of Glycyrrhizae radix (G1 radix) upon endometrial cancer .
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Issue 46
GONZALEZ and ISAACS conducted a 2-year, unblinded, 1-treatment arm, 10-patient, pilot prospective case study to study the effects of proteolytic enzymes, diet, nutritional supplements and detoxification procedures to t1
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BOHLKE and colleagues, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA write that although several dietary compounds are hypothesised to have anticarcinogenic properties, the 1
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BAKER and colleagues, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, and Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0207 USA write that recent intervention trials reported that smokers given 1
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RAO and colleagues, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. V.rao@utoronto.ca write that tomatoes and tomato products containing lycopene the an1
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SCHWARTZBAUM and colleagues, The Ohio State University, College of Medicine and Public Health, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA Schwartzbaum.1@osu.edu conducted a pilot study to investigate the relationship between
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HUANG and colleagues, Graduate Institute of Medicine and School of Technology for Medical Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan, Republic of China studied the association between oxidative stress and trace elements in women with 1
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NAM and colleagues, Division of Urology, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre and The Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario Canada studied the prevalence and patterns of the use of complementary therapies among patients with and1
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EKMAN and colleagues, Department of Urology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden write that genetic polymorphisms and expression of steroid receptors may explain why some individuals are more at risk of developing p1
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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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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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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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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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Issue 43
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 .