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This information is based on a professional level monograph edited and peer-reviewed by contributors to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration (www.naturalstandard.com): Ethan Basch, MD (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center); Cynthia Dacey, PharmD (Natural Standard Research Collaboration); Ivo Foppa, MD, ScD (University of South Carolina); Sadaf Hashmi, MD, MPh (Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health); Catherine Ulbricht, PharmD (Massachusetts General Hospital); Mamta Vora, PharmD (Natural Standard Research Collaboration); Wendy Weissner, BA (Natural Standard Research Collaboration).

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