diet can play a vital role in cancer prevention. nowadays the scientists are looking for food materials which can potentially prevent the cancer occurrence. the purpose of this research is to examine anti-mutagenic and apoptotic effects of apigenin in human lymphoma cells. in present study human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (eheb cell line) were cultured in rpmi 1640 (sigma), supplemented with ...

Immunotherapy could be combined with conventional chemotherapeutic modalities aimed at reducing tumor burden. Such combination therapy may be most useful when "metronomic" doses of antineoplastic drugs are used, thereby potentially avoiding some of the immunosuppressive effects of these drugs. Recent studies have shown that some conventional antineoplastic drugs can be exploited for antiangioge...

In order to study environmental contamination by cytostatic drugs in Portugal hospitals, sampling campaigns were conducted in three hospitals in 2015 (112 samples). Platinum containing drugs and fluorouracil were chosen because both were administered in high amounts. The detection limit was 0.01 pg/cm2 for platinum and 0.1 pg/cm2 for fluorouracil. The results show that spills occur mainly on th...