abstract：:Studies show an important relationship between vitamin D and malignancies, both in prevention and treatment. The extraskeletal actions of vitamin D relevant to oncology include being proapoptotic, antimetastatic, antiangiogenic, antiinflammatory, prodifferentiating, and immunomodulating. Widespread and severe vitamin ...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Cantor I

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are increasing data showing that sonodynamic therapy (SDT), which refers to a synergistic effect of drugs and ultrasound, is a promising new modality for cancer treatment. However, few clinical data on SDT have been published. One reason is the lack of suitable drugs for clinical SDT use. Recently a new sonosens...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Xiaohuai Wang,Lewis TJ,Mitchell D

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of participating in an integrative cancer care program at the Centre for Integrated Healing in Vancouver, British Columbia, on patients' lifestyle, quality of life, and overall well-being. STUDY DESIGN:A mixed-methods case study with a pre- and posttest design. No control group was uti...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Brazier A,Cooke K,Moravan V

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many plant products are known to exert antioxidative effects by quenching various free radicals and singlet molecular oxygen. Andrographis paniculata (Kalmegh) is used extensively in the Indian traditional system of medicine as a hepatoprotective and hepatostimulative agent and has been reported to have antioxidant ef...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Trivedi NP,Rawal UM,Patel BP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of milk thistle have been recognized for centuries as "liver tonics" and are well-known to prevent or reverse hepatotoxicity of reactive drug metabolites or naturally occurring toxins. Milk thistle extracts are now under intense study in the experimental therapeutics of cancer for chemoprevention, treatment, ...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Kroll DJ,Shaw HS,Oberlies NH

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A considerable number of patients with cancer have used or are using the Gerson therapy, an alleged anticancer metabolic diet. However, there is almost no scientific support for this regimen. Hence, the present case review study of 6 patients with metastatic cancer who used the Gerson therapy aims at critically evalua...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Molassiotis A,Peat P

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 200 years, biomedicine has approached the treatment of disease by studying disease processes (patho-genesis), inferring causal connections and developing specific approaches for therapeutically interfering with those processes. This pathogenic approach has been highly successful in acute and traumatic di...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Jonas WB,Beckner W,Coulter I

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective effect of Andrograhis paniculata and andrographolide (ANDLE) against cyclophosphamide (CTX)-induced urothelial toxicity was investigated in this study. Pretreatment of Swiss albino mice with A paniculata extract (10 mg/dose/animal intraperitoneally [ip]) and ANDLE (500 microg/dose/animal ip) could signi...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Sheeja K,Kuttan G

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While many cancer patients derive strength from spiritual or religious faith, concern often remains regarding how different patient subgroups and other community members might react to faith-based services when sponsored by a secular health care organization. METHODS:"A Sacred Gathering for Those Touched by...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Dann NJ,Higby DJ,Mertens WC

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Although the importance of spiritual issues to people with cancer is by now widely acknowledged, there has been almost no research on the value of interventions specifically designed to enhance the spiritual experience of these patients. The present report describes an exploratory study on the effects of a brie...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Cunningham AJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antineoplastic agents induce oxidative stress in biological systems. During cancer chemotherapy, oxidative stress-induced lipid peroxidation generates numerous electrophilic aldehydes that can attack many cellular targets. These products of oxidative stress can slow cell cycle progression of cancer cells and cause cel...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Conklin KA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoluminescent Therapy (CLT) is an unconventional form of photodynamic therapy (PDT), utilizing a second-generation chlorophyll-derived photosensitizing agent and whole-body illumination. Starting in late 2002, CLT was administered in Ireland to 48 patients. Illumination with lasers and light-emitting diodes followed...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Moss RW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different vitamins and other micronutrients in vegetables, fruits, and other natural plant products may prevent cancer development (carcinogenesis) by interfering with detrimental actions of mutagens, carcinogens, and tumor promoters. The goal of current studies in cancer prevention is to determine the mechanisms of s...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Hanausek M,Walaszek Z,Slaga TJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer traditionally has been explained by the biomedical model; however, it is limited in comprehensively accounting for all factors in this disease. Recently, it has been suggested that a broader theoretical framework that includes psychosocial components in cancer is needed to complement the traditional approach. T...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Tacón AM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This exploratory study is an attempt to define psychological attributes related to longer survival in patients with metastatic cancers. Previous published analyses have been limited in two ways. First, they have almost always been carried out on patients not receiving therapy; we have followed people receiving a year ...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Cunningham AJ,Phillips C,Stephen J,Edmonds C

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in cancer detection and treatment have resulted in an increase in the survival rate of individuals diagnosed with cancer. The increased survival rate brings new challenges for increasing the quality of life for cancer survivors. Debilitating side effects can result from the cancer itself and the cancer...

journal_title：Integrative cancer therapies

authors： Schneider CM,Dennehy CA,Roozeboom M,Carter SD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00