Efficacy of a medical nutriment in the treatment of cancer

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 56-63

  Johanning, Gary L ^a   Wang Johanning, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 METHOXYBENZOQUINONE; 2,6 DIMETHOXYBENZOQUINONE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AVEMAR; BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; CYTOKINE; DACARBAZINE; FLUOROURACIL; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL PRODUCT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; WHEAT GERM EXTRACT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FLATULENCE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOLID TUMOR; TASTE DISORDER; TOXICITY TESTING; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; WHEAT GERM;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIALS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; NEOPLASMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947277430     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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