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Breast Cancer
Effects of cancer therapy agents altered by herbal medicine black cohosh
June 16th, 2005
Researchers suggested that the effects of cancer therapy agents on breast cancer cells were altered by the herbal medicine black cohosh. "Recent studies have revealed that many, perhaps most, patients receiving cancer therapy are simultaneously self-medicating with one or several complementary and alternative medicines, often without discussing the use of these agents with their physicians. The effects of these agents on the efficacy and toxicity of standard anticancer therapy have not been studied," scientists in the United States reported. "The experiments described in this report used a well characterized mouse breast cancer cell line to ask...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-16)
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