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ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2021

A new glance at the role of traditional medicines in treatment of cancers.

Meysam Shirzad, Alireza Abbassian

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Article in Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Meysam ShirzadDepartment of Traditional Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, No. 27, Sarparast Ave., Taleqani St., Tehran, Iran. shirzadmd@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4724-163X
Alireza AbbassianDepartment of Traditional Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, No. 27, Sarparast Ave., Taleqani St., Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-3759-7731
Iran University of Medical Sciences · IRTehran University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this letter, the authors noticed the previously published article entitled "How to transfer traditional knowledge about medicinal herbs? or TCM plants: a black box for modern oncologists" by Büntzel et al. The article mentioned traditional Persian Medicine (PM) as the second most published item in the field of medicine for the treatment of oral mucositis and polyneuropathy in cancer patients. We performed a second attempt to find more clinical trials on herbal medications using Iranian Medicine (IM), Traditional Iranian Medicine (TIM), or Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) as added terms to the keywords. In conclusion, we found four more clinical trials on herbal medicines in this field. This survey increases the number of PM trials detected by Büntzel, J et al. to 19 investigations.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsPlants, MedicinalHumansIranMedicine, TraditionalPhytotherapyMedicinal plantsOral mucositisPolyneuropathyTraditional Persian medicine

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PMID34160679
PMCPMC11801882
OpenAlexW3175264781

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