An antioxidant turnabout

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 59-61

  Block, Keith I ^a,b  

^a Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; BETA CAROTENE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; EDITORIAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 44949177750     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735408319066     Document Type: Editorial

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