Materia Medica for Various Cancers
Cancer is one of the leading killers in the world and the incidence is increasing, but most cancer patients and cancer survivors suffer much from the disease and its conventional treatments’ side effects. In the past, clinical data showed that some comple
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Volume 2
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William C.S. Cho Editor
Materia Medica for Various Cancers
Editor William C.S. Cho Department of Clinical Oncology Queen Elizabeth Hospital 30 Gascoigne Road Hong Kong SAR PR China [email protected]
ISSN 2211-0534 e-ISSN 2211-0542 ISBN 978-94-007-1982-8 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1983-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1983-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011937455 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
In the recent decades, numerous experimental and clinical works investigating the anticancer effects of materia medica have been published in professional journals, together with oceans of online articles. There is a lot of information on materia medica for various cancers, the scientific and medical community are thrust for up-to-date sources that are supported by concrete laboratory evidences or clinical trials. Subsequent to our previous volume entitled Evidence-based Anticancer Materia Medica, this volume brings together leading scientists and physicians in the field to discuss the application of materia medica for the treatment of various cancers. Each chapter provides extensive review and expert opinion on the recent progress of materia medica research in a particular cancer from bench to bedside application. In addition, the book also includes an overview of evidence-based materia medica for cancer chemoprevention, as well as a discussion on the pharmacokinetics of anticancer materia medica. This specialized volume offers evidence-based information about materia medica for various cancers that would be helpful to both medical professionals and cancer patients. William C.S. Cho
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Evidence-based Anticancer Materia Medica for Lung Cancer ..................................................................................... Constance L.L. Saw, Lita S.J. Chew, and Xiaofeng G. Cai
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Evidence-based Anticancer Materia Medica for Colorectal Cancer ............................................................................ Minsig Choi, Ramzi Mohammad, M. Wasif Saif, and Richard Kim
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An Overview of the Current Development of Phytoremedies for Breast Cancer..................................................... Chun-Hung Lin, Wai-Leng Lee, and Lie-Fen Shyur
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Evidence-based Anticancer Kampo Medicine for Gastric Cancer................................................................. Koji Tanaka, Takeshi Omori, and Toshiro Nishida
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Evidence-based Anticancer M
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