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Breast cancer patient quality of life improved with ginseng use

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 8th, 2006

Breast cancer patient survival and quality of life (QOL) improved with the use of ginseng.

According to recent research from the United States, "The authors evaluated the associations of ginseng use as a complementary therapy with survival and QOL in a cohort of 1,455 breast cancer patients who were recruited to the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study between August 1996 and March 1998 in Shanghai, China. Patients were followed through December 2002."

"Information on ginseng use before cancer diagnosis was collected at baseline recruitment and was linked to survival," explained Y. Cui and colleagues, Vanderbilt University. "Survivors' ginseng use after...

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