A retrospective evaluation of the effects of deuterium depleted water consumption on 4 patients with brain metastases from lung cancer

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 172-181

  Krempels, Krisztina ^a   Somlyai, Ildikó ^a   Somlyai, Gábor ^a  

^a HYD LLC for Cancer Research and Drug Development   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Deuterium depleted water; Deuterium depletion; Lung cancer; Survival

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; DEUTERIUM; ETOPOSIDE; GEMCITABINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEUTERIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER;

EID: 52649147083     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735408322851     Document Type: Article

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