Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids plus vitamin E restore immunodeficiency and prolong survival for severely ill patients with generalized malignancy: A randomized control trial

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 395-402

  Gogos, Charalambos A ^a   Ginopoulos, Panayiotis ^a   Salsa, Bassilis ^a   Apostolidou, Euterpi ^a   Zoumbos, Nikolas C ^a   Kalfarentzos, Fotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Immunomodulation; Malnutrition; Metastatic cancer; Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; METASTASIS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOLID TUMOR; SUPPRESSOR CELL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PLACEBOS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0031975234     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980115)82:2<403::AID-CNCR21>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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