Non-organ-specific preventive effect of long-term administration of Korean red ginseng extract on incidence of human cancers

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 489-494

  Yun, Taik Koo ^a   Zheng, Shu ^b   Choi, Soo Yong ^c   Cai, Shan Rong ^b   Lee, Yun Sil ^c   Liu, Xi Yong ^b   Cho, Kyung Ja ^d   Park, Kun Young ^e  

^a Korea Institute of Cancer Chemoprevention   (South Korea)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c Korea Institute of Radiation and Medical Science   (South Korea)

^d University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

chronic atrophic gastritis; clinical trial; human cancer incidence; Korean red ginseng; randomized trial

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; GINSENG EXTRACT; GINSENOSIDE RB 1; GINSENOSIDE RB 2; GINSENOSIDE RC; GINSENOSIDE RD; GINSENOSIDE RE; GINSENOSIDE RG 1; GINSENOSIDE RG 2; GINSENOSIDE RG 3; GINSENOSIDE RH 2; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; BLADDER CANCER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CHINA; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ISOLATION; EPISTAXIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NAUSEA; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SOLID TUMOR; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH PAIN; SWEATING; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CHINA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GASTRITIS, ATROPHIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PANAX; PLANT EXTRACTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

PANAX GINSENG;

EID: 77953783841     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2009.1275     Document Type: Article

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