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IT has previously been shown that the alkoxyglycerol esters to a certain extent prevent leuco- and thrombo-cytopenia1. During 1955–56 about 300 patients, suffering from cancer of the uterine cervix, were given alkoxyglycerol esters for the whole period of treatment with radium and X-rays. The white cell and the thrombocyte counts were higher for the ‘prophylactic group’, that is, patients treated with alkoxyglycerol esters, than for the controls, that is, the group treated with irradiation only, both during the treatment and after its termination.
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BROHULT, A. Alkoxyglycerols in Irradiation Treatment. Nature 193, 1304 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931304a0
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