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   Cancer

   The goal of this research is to find better ways to treat cancer and help cancer patients.
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   Harmal

   Ground Peganum harmala seeds have been used occasionally to treat skin cancer and subcutaneous cancers traditionally in Morocco.
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   Prostate cancer

   In advanced stages of prostate cancer radiation is used to treat painful bone metastases. ... Brachytherapy with implanted seeds was first described in 1983.
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   Breast cancer treatment

   Systemic therapy uses medications to treat cancer cells throughout the body. ... The preliminary research into flax seeds indicates that flax can significantly change breast cancer growth and metastasis, and enhance the inhibitory effect of tamoxifen on estrogen-dependent tumors.
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   Radiation therapy

   Implants can be fractionated over minutes or hours, or they can be permanent seeds which slowly deliver radiation until they become inactive. ... The concept of therapeutic radiation was invented by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen when he discovered that the x-ray was a powerful and effective tool with which to treat cancer.
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   Folic acid

   Leafy vegetables such as spinach, turnip greens, lettuces, dried beans and peas, fortified cereal products, sunflower seeds and certain other fruits and vegetables are rich sources of folate. ... Cancer cells divide rapidly, and drugs that interfere with folate metabolism are used to treat cancer.
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   Seed

   Seeds are the source of some medicines including castor oil, tea tree oil and the discredited cancer drug, Laetrile. ... Nematicide from milkweed seeds.
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   Amygdalin

   Emulsin, on the other hand, decomposes it into benzaldehyde, cyanide, and two molecules of glucose; this enzyme occurs in the bitter almond, and consequently the seeds invariably contain free cyanide and benzaldehyde. ... Lengthy Jail Sentence for Vendor of Laetrile—A Quack Medication to Treat Cancer Patients.
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   Max Gerson

   Max Gerson (18 October, 1881 - 8 March, 1959) was the developer of the Gerson therapy, an alternative therapy claimed to treat cancer and most chronic, degenerative diseases.
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    Prostate brachytherapy

    LDR brachytherapy is the type that is most commonly used to treat prostate cancer; it may sometimes be referred to as ‘seed implantation’ or it may also be called ‘pinhole surgery’. ... Figure 3 shows how the seeds are positioned to target the tumour.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Cancer,
• Harmal,
• Prostate cancer,
• Breast cancer treatment,
• Radiation therapy,
• Folic acid,
• Seed,
• Amygdalin,
• Max Gerson,
• Prostate brachytherapy