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Research Updates: 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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Issue 34
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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Issue 33
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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Issue 32
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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Issue 32
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
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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.
