Can homeopathic treatment slow prostate cancer growth?

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 343-349

  Jonas, Wayne B ^a   Gaddipati, Jaya P ^b   Rajeshkumar, N V ^b   Sharma, Anuj ^b   Thangapazham, Rajesh L ^b   Warren, Jim ^b   Singh, Anoop K ^d   Ives, John A ^a   Olsen, Cara ^b   Mog, Steven R ^c   Maheshwari, Radha K ^b  

^a SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES RADIOBIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

CAM; Cancer; Complementary medicine; Homeopathy; Prostate; Rat

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 33750866979     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735406294225     Document Type: Article

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