A new approach to metastatic cancer prevention: Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP), a unique pectin that blocks cell surface lectins

Alternative Medicine Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-10

  Kidd, Parris M ^a  

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