A randomized study of chemotherapy versus biochemistry with chemotherapy plus aloe arborescens in patients with metastatic cancer

In Vivo

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 171-176

  Lissoni, Paolo ^a   Rovelli, Franco ^a   Brivio, Fernando ^a   Zago, Romano ^b   Colciago, Massimo ^c   Messina, Giuseppina ^a   Mora, Adelio ^a   Porro, Giorgio ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Aloe Foundation   (Italy)

^c INRCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aloe; Biochemotherapy; Natural cancer therapy

Indexed keywords

ALOE ARBORESCENS EXTRACT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; NAVELBINE; OXALIPLATIN; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALOE; ALOE ARBORESCENS; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROTOXICITY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PARESTHESIA; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOFT TISSUE METASTASIS; SOLID TUMOR; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR REGRESSION; VOMITING;

AGED; ALOE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 63049128125     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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