Herbal Remedies Linked to Liver Cancers throughout Asia (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Herbal Remedies Linked to Liver Cancers throughout Asia (1 of 1)

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Maps showing prevalence of aristolochic acid related cancers around the world. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 18, 2017 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.W.T. Ng at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, and colleagues was titled, 'Aristolochic acids and their derivatives are widely implicated in liver cancers in Taiwan and throughout Asia.'

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A.W.T. Ng <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2017)

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