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Research Updates: cancer
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Issue 38
CROCETTI and colleagues, U.O. di Epidemiologia, CSPO, Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi, Firenze, Italy evaluated the proportion and characteristics of complementary therapy (CT) users among female patients with breast cancer who were receiv1
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Issue 38
LIU and colleagues, Department of Immunology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya Japan studied the anti-tumour effect and its mechanism of action of the herbal medicine sho-saiko-to upon a murine
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Issue 38
ZHENG and colleagues, Cancer Institute, Zhejian Medical University, Hangzhou, China write that various naturally occurring substances from vegetables and herbs exert chemopreventive properties against cancer. The authors revie1
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Issue 38
RUI, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China writes that a comprehensive search for cancer chemopreventive agents was established at their Institute since the late 1
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Issue 37
RISBERG and colleagues, Institute of Community Medicine, and Department of Oncology, University Hospital of Tromso, Norway. studied the pattern of use of alternative medicine, called nonproven therapy (NPT) used by cancer pati1
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Issue 37
LE-VU and colleagues, Departement de biostatistique et d'epidemiologie, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France compared different modes of rehabilitation following breast cancer surgery .
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Issue 37
KAPPAUF and colleagues, Medical Clinic 5/Oncology and Hematology, Nuremberg City Hospital, Germany describe a case of spontaneous remission (SR) of lung cancer of a 61-year-old man with extensive metatastic disease 5 months fo1
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Issue 37
DE STEFANI and colleagues, Registro Nacional de Cancer, Instituto Nacional de Oncologia, Montevideo, Uruguay studied the relationship between dietary sucrose intake and colorectal cancer .
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Issue 37
RISBERG and colleagues, Institute of Community Medicine, and Department of Oncology, University Hospital of Tromso, Norway. studied the pattern of use of alternative medicine, called nonproven therapy (NPT) used by cancer pati1
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Issue 37
LE-VU and colleagues, Departement de biostatistique et d'epidemiologie, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France compared different modes of rehabilitation following breast cancer surgery .
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Issue 37
KAPPAUF and colleagues, Medical Clinic 5/Oncology and Hematology, Nuremberg City Hospital, Germany describe a case of spontaneous remission (SR) of lung cancer of a 61-year-old man with extensive metatastic disease 5 months fo1
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Issue 37
DE STEFANI and colleagues, Registro Nacional de Cancer, Instituto Nacional de Oncologia, Montevideo, Uruguay studied the relationship between dietary sucrose intake and colorectal cancer .
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Issue 36
ARAKAWA, Fukushima Medical College, Japan studied the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) to reduce nausea, vomiting and anxiety associated with chemotherapy.
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Issue 36
FINSTAD and colleagues, Institute for Nutrition Research, University of Oslo, and The Norwegian Radium Hospital write that polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may reduce cell multiplication in normal and transformed white blood1
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Issue 36
GORINGE and colleagues, Department of Haematology, University Hospital of Wales, College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK write that hepatic (liver) veno-occlusive disease (VOD) of the liver is a common complication following administ1
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Issue 35
HARDELL and colleagues, Onkologiska Kliniken, Regionsjukhuset, Orebro, Sweden conducted a questionnaire study to determine the use and prevalence of alternative medicine treatment among cancer patients .
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Issue 35
GRAY and colleagues, Ontario Breast Cancer Information Exchange Project, Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Canada conducted a survey questionnaire with purchasers of A Guide to Unconventional Cancer Therapies, produced by the Ontario 1
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Issue 35
CHAU and colleagues, Institute of Anatomy, School of Life Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan report that beta-lapachone, a new topoisomerase inhibitor (enzymes which regulate DNA supercoiling and which can introduce transient brea1
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Issue 35
ZHAO and colleagues, Division of Nutrition and Endocrinology, American Health Foundation, Valhalla, New York 10595 USA write that epidemiological and clinical research data suggest that tomato consumption may reduce the risk of cancer.1
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Issue 34
DE STEFANI and colleagues, Registro Nacional de Cancer, Montevideo, Uruguay conducted a case-control study between 1994-96 to investigate the relationship between the frequency of intake of different types of fat and breast cancer