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ArticleClinical case reports2020

Stable improvement in classical B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia with dietary interventions: A personal experience.

Frans X Plooij, John Raemaekers

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Frans X PlooijInternational Research-Institute on Infant Studies Arnhem The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0767-2048
John RaemaekersTreating Hematologist until Retirement in 2016 at the Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

If the lymphocyte count is still low enough, the first part of the wait-and-see approach for asymptomatic Rai stage 0 classical B-CLL can be used to find out if the lymphocyte counts follow an exponential growth curve. If they do, the whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet intervention can be started.

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B‐CLLdietary interventionhematologylifestyle medicineoncologyplant‐based dietwhole food

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PMID33363857
PMCPMC7752481

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