HONG KONG An ancient Chinese brew may help reducethe intestinal damage caused by chemotherapy given to colon andrectal cancer patients, according to researchers. To meet growing consumer demands, researchers in the fieldof traditional medicine are trying to prove the efficacy of ancient drugs using Western-style animal tests and humanclinical trials.
The researchers said they fed cancerous mice the Chinese brew after the rodents had been treated with irinotecan, a chemotherapy drug known to be toxic for the gut and a cause of diarrhoea. ''The researchers treated cancerous mice with chemotherapy, which shrank tumors but also caused massive destruction in the intestinal lining of the animals,'' they said.
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