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+{{cquote|a female patient of mine was receiving blood transfusion for low wbc and cbc for 8 month ,  I had only seen her once as I work in a charity clinic for people with out insurance.  Her story did not add up.  She was seeing a hemetology oncologist that did a bone marrow biopsy that showed no luekemia .  but had a foot note  of being copper deficent .  I looked her over and she had dentures and was using a lot of high zinc denture paste.  I then looked on your sight that zinc competes with copper absorbtion in the gut.  * 8 months earlier she had had a gallbladder out and had lost 70 lbs before this operation due to nausea.  so her dentures would not fit and at that time had started using much more adhesive  this increased the problem ..  I took her off the adhesive and added copper to diet and in two month she was 90% improved.  The oncolgist notified me he would have never had found this . Thank you the article on copper defecincy.   it saved a patients life.}}
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 {{cquote|I use wikipedia as a jumping off point for a variety of research.  I'm a chemist involved in delivering molecules to and across the skin. Periodically I will encounter a new (to me) molecule, or a new use for a molecule I know in other contexts.  I particularly appreciate that wikipedia has so many molecules represented, often with structural data.  But I also appreciate being able to look up whatever topic might strike me at the moment, after hearing a radio show, or when my kids have a homework question.  No resource is perfect or perfectly accurate, but wikipedia does an astoundingly good job.  I like that the "wisdom of the crowd" is proved out every day on wikipedia.  Thanks to all you folks do. }}