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Nutrition & Diet Information for Carcinoid Patients: An Interview with Jeffrey I. Mechanick, MD

March 3, 2010

“Niacin deficiency, general protein energy deficiency, nutrition problems due to surgery, malnutrition and chronic diarrhea, and the excess metabolism of tryptophan,” are the key nutritional issues for carcinoid patients says endocrinologist…

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