careful scrutiny of exactly how much calcium a patient is taking in from all sources, including both diet (food) and supplements. An unanswered question regarding the use of calcium is the potential increase in cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction
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you disrupt a patient’s life with radiation, chemotherapy, or surgery to the head and neck, it’s especially challenging for them and their families. Their diet has to change, their salivary function may change, and many people experience a lot of
Pilar de la Morena Barrio, María Ángeles Vicente Conesa, Enrique González-Billalabeitia, Edgar Urrego, Elisa García-Garre, Elena García-Martínez, Marta Zafra Poves, Vicente Vicente, and Francisco Ayala de la Peña
group, 9 patients (20.9%) were diet-controlled, 25 (58.2%) were on oral hypoglycemic agents, and 9 (20.9%) were undergoing on insulin treatment. Depending on the chemotherapy protocol, 2 dose levels of wP were used: 80 and 100 mg/m 2 /wk, although no
Therese B. Bevers, Deborah K. Armstrong, Banu Arun, Robert W. Carlson, Kenneth H. Cowan, Mary B. Daly, Irvin Fleming, Judy E. Garber, Mary Gemignani, William J. Gradishar, Helen Krontiras, Swati Kulkarni, Christine Laronga, Loretta Loftus, Deborah J. MacDonald, Martin C. Mahoney, Sofia D. Merajver, Ingrid Meszoely, Lisa Newman, Elizabeth Pritchard, Victoria Seewaldt, Rena V. Sellin, Charles L. Shapiro, and John H. Ward
risk of breast cancer. 172 Diet: Results from the WHI controlled intervention trial of 48,835 postmenopausal women designed to test the effect of a low-fat diet (e.g., fat intake limited to 20% of total caloric intake per day, and increased
Keli Turner, Sheelu Varghese, and H. Richard Alexander
Other factors found to be associated with peritoneal mesothelioma development are previous abdominal radiation and the mineral erionite. 5 , 6 Less substantiated and more controversial putative risk factors include a diet low in vegetable consumption
Nina N. Sanford, David J. Sher, Xiaohan Xu, Chul Ahn, Anthony V. D’Amico, Ayal A. Aizer, and Brandon A. Mahal
: World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research ; 2007 . 2. World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research . Continuous Update Project Expert Report 2018. Diet, nutrition, physical activity and liver cancer
Therese B. Bevers, John H. Ward, Banu K. Arun, Graham A. Colditz, Kenneth H. Cowan, Mary B. Daly, Judy E. Garber, Mary L. Gemignani, William J. Gradishar, Judith A. Jordan, Larissa A. Korde, Nicole Kounalakis, Helen Krontiras, Shicha Kumar, Allison Kurian, Christine Laronga, Rachel M. Layman, Loretta S. Loftus, Martin C. Mahoney, Sofia D. Merajver, Ingrid M. Meszoely, Joanne Mortimer, Lisa Newman, Elizabeth Pritchard, Sandhya Pruthi, Victoria Seewaldt, Michelle C. Specht, Kala Visvanathan, Anne Wallace, Mary Ann Bergman, and Rashmi Kumar
, environmental factors play a significant role. Lifestyle modifications, such as those related to diet, body weight, exercise, and alcohol consumption, are some of the modifiable breast cancer risk factors. Although no clear evidence shows that specific dietary
Jeffrey A. Gilreath, David D. Stenehjem, and George M. Rodgers
of lung, colorectal, prostate, and other cancers in patients with peripheral arterial disease, 55 and long-term phlebotomy combined with a low-iron diet reduces the progression to hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with hepatitis C. 56 The
Kostandinos Sideras and Charles L. Loprinzi
-phytoestrogens are naturally occurring compounds found primarily in soy products that have both estrogenic and antiestrogenic activity. 46 Several clinical trials have failed to show any benefit associated with an isoflavone-rich soy protein diet or dietary
Dayna S. Early and Darrell M. Gray II
and discomfort may occur, but patients are not restricted in terms of diet or activity after the procedure is complete. FS is very effective for identifying and removing polyps in the distal colon, 4 , 5 but only examines approximately one-fourth to
