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Chemoprevention in gastrointestinal cancers is focus of review

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 10th, 2006

Researchers review chemoprevention in gastrointestinal cancers in a recent issue of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology.

According to the review from the United States, "Chemoprevention, pharmacological intervention for disease prevention, aims to intervene in pathways that lead to clinical disease before the disease occurs. Cancer chemoprevention is a relatively new field, but for gastrointestinal cancers, clinical trials have highlighted the chemopreventive potential of several agents. For colorectal neoplasia, trials with aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) and calcium have demonstrated the most significant reductions of...

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