A New Treatment for Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers

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Editor’s introduction:

Issue 8 of The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine features an article by by Dr Rozencwagj, NMD which details the development of a new treatment for non-melanoma skin cancers. Broccoli for Non-Melanoma SkincancerNATMED 8 p63-66

This article may be downloaded as a PDF document from the link above, or read in the hard copy of issue 8 of the journal.

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