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Francois Meyer

- Verified email at chuq.qc.ca - Cited by 8923

François G. Meyer

- Verified email at colorado.edu - Cited by 4119

Randomized trial of antioxidant vitamins to prevent acute adverse effects of radiation therapy in head and neck cancer patients

I Bairati, F Meyer, M Gélinas, A Fortin… - Journal of clinical …, 2005 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Many cancer patients take antioxidant vitamin supplements with the hope of
improving the outcome of conventional therapies and of reducing the adverse effects of these …

Insulin-like growth factors, their binding proteins, and prostate cancer risk: analysis of individual patient data from 12 prospective studies

…, SE Oliver, JM Holly, J Donovan, F Meyer… - Annals of internal …, 2008 - acpjournals.org
Background: Some, but not all, published results have shown an association between
circulating blood levels of some insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and their binding proteins (…

A randomized trial of antioxidant vitamins to prevent second primary cancers in head and neck cancer patients

I Bairati, F Meyer, M Gélinas, A Fortin… - Journal of the …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background: Although low dietary intakes of antioxidant vitamins and minerals have been
associated with higher risks of cancer, results of trials testing antioxidant supplementation for …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic angiogenesis with intramuscular NV1FGF improves amputation-free survival in patients with critical limb ischemia

…, F Vermassen, E Pham, V Grek, M Coleman, F Meyer - Molecular Therapy, 2008 - cell.com
This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of intramuscular administration of NV1FGF, a
plasmid-based angiogenic gene delivery system for local expression of fibroblast growth factor …

Brushlets: a tool for directional image analysis and image compression

FG Meyer, RR Coifman - Applied and computational harmonic analysis, 1997 - Elsevier
We construct a new adaptive basis of functions which is reasonably well localized with only
one peak in frequency. We develop a compression algorithm that exploits this basis to obtain …

Systematic review of the literature on characteristics of late‐talking toddlers

C Desmarais, A Sylvestre, F Meyer… - … journal of language & …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Research has investigated late‐talking toddlers because they are at great risk
of continuing to experience language‐learning difficulties once they enter school and hence …

Antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplementation and prostate cancer prevention in the SU. VI. MAX trial

F Meyer, P Galan, P Douville, I Bairati… - … journal of cancer, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Randomized trials have shown, unexpectedly, that supplementation with selenium or
vitamin E is associated with a reduction of prostate cancer risk. We assess whether a …

High levels of PCBs in breast milk of Inuit women from Arctic Quebec

E Dewailly, A Nantel, JP Weber, F Meyer - Bulletin of Environmental …, 1989 - osti.gov
In the last twenty years polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been identified as major
contaminants of the natural environment. More recently, the presence of such toxic compounds …

Antioxidant vitamins supplementation and mortality: a randomized trial in head and neck cancer patients

I Bairati, F Meyer, E Jobin, M Gélinas… - … journal of cancer, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
There has been concern that long‐term supplementation with high‐dose antioxidant vitamins,
especially vitamin E (α‐tocopherol), may increase all‐cause mortality. We conducted a …

Significance of MMP-2 expression in prostate cancer: an immunohistochemical study

D Trudel, Y Fradet, F Meyer, F Harel, B Têtu - Cancer research, 2003 - AACR
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in North American men. Currently available
prognostic factors inadequately predict which cancers will be aggressive and which will lead an …