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Cupping therapy in Saudi Arabia: from control to integration
Integrative Medicine Research, 2018 Cupping therapy or Hijamah is a leading traditional practice after spiritual healings and herbal medicine in Saudi Arabia. Wet cupping is by far the most common type of cupping therapy.
Mohamed K.M. Khalil +3 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.The number of circulating tumor cells obtained from prostate cancer patients was increased approximately 5‐fold compared to regular CellSearch when processing 2 mL diagnostic leukapheresis material aliquots and increased by 44‐fold when processing 20 mL DLA aliquots using the flow enrichment target capture Halbach‐array.
Michiel Stevens +8 more
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A giant with feet of clay: on the validity of the data that feed machine learning in medicine [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 This paper considers the use of Machine Learning (ML) in medicine by focusing on the main problem that this computational approach has been aimed at solving or at least minimizing: uncertainty. To this aim, we point out how uncertainty is so ingrained in medicine that it biases also the representation of clinical phenomena, that is the very input of ML
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Use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy: a cross-sectional survey on Iraqi women
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2016 BackgroundDue to the lack of strong evidence on safety and efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches, the use of CAM in women during pregnancy could be hazardous for mother and fetus.
J. Hwang +6 more
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Clinical proteomics for precision medicine: the bladder cancer case [PDF]
, 2017 Precision medicine can improve patient management by guiding therapeutic decision based on molecular characteristics. The concept has been extensively addressed through the application of –omics based approaches.
Frantzi, Maria +4 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Urine is a rich source of biomarkers for cancer detection. Tumor‐derived material is released into the bloodstream and transported to the urine. Urine can easily be collected from individuals, allowing non‐invasive cancer detection. This review discusses the rationale behind urine‐based cancer detection and its potential for cancer diagnostics ...
Birgit M. M. Wever +1 more
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Tuning parameter calibration for prediction in personalized medicine [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Personalized medicine has become an important part of medicine, for instance predicting individual drug responses based on genomic information. However, many current statistical methods are not tailored to this task, because they overlook the individual heterogeneity of patients.
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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2018 Background Intentional use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has previously only been researched in small, possibly biased, samples. There seems to be a lack of scientific information regarding healthy individual’s attitudes and presumed ...
Agnete E. Kristoffersen +5 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote cancer growth, invasion (metastasis), and drug resistance. Here, we identified functional and diverse circulating CAFs (cCAFs) in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). cCAFs were found in higher numbers and were functional and diverse in mPCa patients versus healthy individuals, suggesting their ...
Richell Booijink +6 more
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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2016 BackgroundTo assess the prevalence of cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort and to detail the pattern of complementary and alternative (CAM) use adopted by women for the treatment of these symptoms.MethodsData from the 2012 national Australian ...
Carole Fisher +3 more
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