Browsing by Subject "Cancer prevention"

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      Can statin therapy reduce the risk of melanoma? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials 

      Bonovas, Stefanos; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Filioussi, K.; Peponi, Evangelia; Bagos, Pantelis G.; Sitaras, N. M. (2010)
      A growing body of literature suggests that statins may have a chemopreventive potential against melanoma through pleiotropic anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, and antiangiogenesis mechanisms. Our aim was to examine this ...
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      The current and future role of the medical oncologist in the professional care for cancer patients: A position paper by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 

      Popescu, R. A.; Schäfer, R.; Califano, R.; Eckert, R.; Coleman, R.; Douillard, J.-Y.; Cervantes, A.; Casali, Paolo G.; Sessa, Cristiana; Cutsem, E. van; Vries, Elisabeth G. E. de; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fumasoli, K.; Wörmann, B.; Samonigg, H.; Cascinu, S.; Hernández, J. J. C.; Howard, A. J.; Ciardiello, F.; Stahel, R. A.; Piccart, M. (2014)
      The number of cancer patients in Europe is rising and significant advances in basic and applied cancer research are making the provision of optimal care more challenging. The concept of cancer as a systemic, highly ...
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      Developing the evidence base for cancer chemoprevention: Use of meta-analysis 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Bagos, Pantelis G.; Bonovas, Stefanos (2011)
      Meta-analysis is a quantitative approach for systematically combining the results of previous studies in order to arrive at conclusions about the body of research. It answers a specific research question, includes an ...
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      SESy-Europe: A multi-language database dedicated to cancer screening monitoring 

      Mauri, D.; Pazarlis, P.; Mauri, J.; Altinoz, H.; Flores, F. J. Rivas; Karentzou, I.; Proiskos, A.; Lakiotis, V.; Maragkaki, A.; Terzoudi, E.; Dambrosio, M.; Spiliopoulou, A.; Varsami, A.; Alexandropoulou, P.; Ch, F. Tolis; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Vittoraki, A. (2004)
      Cancer is the second cause of death in developed countries. Many efforts to educate the public to more tumor free life-style and screening practice have been therefore adopted. Considering the high costs of diagnostic ...
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      Soy protein isolate prevents chemically-induced rat mammary tumors 

      Constantinou, Andreas I.; Morgan Lucas, L.; Lantvit, D.; Hawthorne, M.; Xu, X.; Chu, W. N.; Jeffery, E. H.; Christov, K.; Van Breemen, R. B.; Pezzuto, J. M. (2002)
      purified daidzein at 200 mg/kg diet