Editorial Issue 145 |
Written by Administrator |
{backbutton} Also, more than 75% of medical students at Georgetown University School of Medicine feel that “complementary and alternative medicine should be included in the curriculum”. In the Cancer Research section of the Updates, in addition to the study about how selenium can act synergistically with doxorubicin (trade name Adriamycin, a chemotherapy drug) in counteracting breast cancer, are the studies investigating how calcium or some related component in dairy foods is associated with increased prostate cancer risk (see Mitrou et al, page 31), as well as a randomized controlled trial of aromatherapy massage in patients with cancer (see Wilkinson et al, page 31). There is also a study from South Korea investigating the neuro-protective effects of acupuncture in Parkinson’s Disease (see Kang et al, page 33).
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