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Gabriele Dennert
Publications - 18
Citations - 1613
Gabriele Dennert is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & MEDLINE. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 18 publications receiving 1409 citations.
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How Many Cancer Patients Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis
TL;DR: The overall prevalence of CAM use found was lower than often claimed, however, there was some evidence that the use has increased considerably over the past years and the health care systems ought to implement clear strategies of how to deal with this.
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Selenium for preventing cancer
Gabriele Dennert,Marcel Zwahlen,Maree Brinkman,Marco Vinceti,Maurice P. Zeegers,Markus Horneber +5 more
TL;DR: Findings have limitations due to study design, quality and heterogeneity that complicate interpretation of the summary statistics, and some studies suggested that genetic factors may modify the relation between selenium and cancer risk-a hypothesis that deserves further investigation.
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Selenium for preventing cancer
Gabriele Dennert,Marcel Zwahlen,Maree Brinkman,Marco Vinceti,Maurice P. Zeegers,Markus Horneber +5 more
TL;DR: Despite evidence for an inverse association between selenium exposure and the risk of some types of cancer, these results should be interpreted with care due to the potential limiting factors of heterogeneity and influences of unknown biases, confounding and effect modification.
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Selenium for alleviating the side effects of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery in cancer patients.
Gabriele Dennert,Markus Horneber +1 more
TL;DR: There is insufficient evidence at present that selenium supplementation alleviates the side effects of tumour specific chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatments, or that it improves the after effects of surgery, or improves quality of life in cancer patients or reduces secondary lymphoedema.
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Selenium for preventing cancer.Review information
Gabriele Dennert,Marcel Zwahlen,Maree Brinkman,Marco Vinceti,Maurice P. Zeegers,Markus Horneber +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the efficacy of selenium supplements for cancer prevention in women and men was investigated in 49 prospective observational studies and six randomised controlled trials (RCTs).