Clinical Studies

Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzyme Therapy Fails To Increase Survival or Quality of Life Compared to Conventional Gemcitabine Cytotoxic Therapy.

....those who chose gemcitabine-based chemotherapy survived morethan three times as long (14.0 v 4.3 months) and had betterquality of life than those who chose proteolytic enzyme treatment.

Methodology for Clinical Trials in Integrative Oncology by Andrew Vickers PhD.

Andrew Vickers has written a series of articles on methodology of clinical trials of integrative medicine, including issues such as randomization, early phase clinical trials, accrual and quality of life assessment. All of these articles are now available open access (i.e. free-of-charge) via PubMed Central. Simply go to Medline(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez) and run the following search: "J Soc Integr Oncol"[Journal] AND Vickers a[au] Click on an article that interests you to see the abstract, then click on “free author manuscript in PubMed Central” towards the top write for the free text.

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Yoga Improves Pain and Fatigue

On the day after a day during which women practiced more yoga, they experienced significantly lower levels of pain and fatigue, and higher levels of invigoration, acceptance, and relaxation.

Safety and pharmacokinetic trial of docetaxel plus an Astragalus-based herbal formula for non-small cell lung cancer patients.

Jinfukang did not alter the pharmacokinetics of docetaxel nor appear to affect survival in this study.

Evaluation of widely consumed botanicals as immunological adjuvants

Some, but not all, botanicals purported to be immune stimulants had adjuvant activity in our model. PSK and Astragalus were surprisingly active and are being further fractionated to identify the most active adjuvant components.

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Clinical Studies

Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzyme Therapy Fails To Increase Survival or Quality of Life Compared to Conventional Gemcitabine Cytotoxic Therapy.

Methodology for Clinical Trials in Integrative Oncology by Andrew Vickers PhD.

Yoga Improves Pain and Fatigue

Safety and pharmacokinetic trial of docetaxel plus an Astragalus-based herbal formula for non-small cell lung cancer patients.

Evaluation of widely consumed botanicals as immunological adjuvants

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