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Eicosapentaenoic and Docosahexaenoic Fatty Acids Modify Skeletal Muscle Fat Infiltration in an Animal Model of Colorectal Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy
DownloadSpring 2017
Background: Myosteatosis is defined as low skeletal muscle radio-density with elevated amounts of intermuscular adipose tissue, assessed using computed tomography. Myosteatosis has been recently observed to be associated with mortality in people with cancer. Previous work from our lab reported...
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Reasons for not receiving standard of care treatment and effectiveness of capecitabine in stage III colon cancer patients in Alberta
DownloadFall 2011
Adjuvant chemotherapy is the standard of care for stage-III colon cancer. Despite this, large proportions of patients do not receive it; the oncologist may not recommend it or the patient may refuse it. We aimed to identify the physicians’ and patients’ reasons for making treatment decisions. We...
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Spring 2015
The tumor suppressor protein Ras association domain family 1A (RASSF1A) has roles in multiple signaling pathways including modulating apoptosis, the cell cycle, DNA damage, and microtubule organization. RASSF1A has been shown to be one of the most frequently epigenetically silenced genes in a...