Positive Health Online

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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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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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 .

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Issue 40

LANDSTROM and colleagues, Department of Pathology, University of Umea, Sweden researched, in rats, the effect of diet treatments with soy flour and rye bran upon prostate tumour develo1

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SENZAKI and colleagues, Department of Pathology II, Kansai Medical University, Osaka Japan evaluated the effects of dietary fats upon breast cancer growth and metastasis .

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Issue 40

NESARETNAM and colleagues, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, UK sarnesar@porim.gov.my study the potential antiproliferative effects of toc1

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Issue 40

HEAD, Alternative Medicine Review. PO Box 25, Dover Idaho 83825 USA. kathi@thorne.com review (63 references) the proposed mechanisms of action for vitamin C (ascorbic acid, ascorbate) in the 1

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Issue 39

HARTMAN and colleagues, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda Maryland 20892-7326 USA evaluated the association between prostate cancer and baseline vitamin E and selenium .

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Issue 39

WIDEROFF and colleagues, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD 20892 USA write that earlier case-control studies reported inverse associations of cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL)<1

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Issue 39

PENG and colleagues, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724 analysed the plasma concentrations of 10 micronutrients in cervical tissue from cancerous, precancerous and noncancerous<1

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COSS and colleagues, Sutter Wellness and Healing Network, Sutter Cancer Center, Sacramento CA 95816 USA conducted a telephone survey of its cancer patients in 1994. The primary objective of this survey was: 1) to determine the1

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