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Published online 25 August 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000831-1
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Herbal extracts help fight cancer
Extracts from some herbal remedies may make cancers more vulnerable to conventional chemotherapy drugs.
Plantextracts with anti-inflammatory properties may be useful in increasing the vulnerability of cancers to chemotherapeutic drugs, new research in Oncogene 1suggests.
Chemotherapy can hold diseases such as breast cancer at bay, but patients often die when tumour cells eventually develop resistance to the drugs used.
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