Effectiveness of beta-carotene in cancer chemoprevention.
@article{Toma1995EffectivenessOB, title={Effectiveness of beta-carotene in cancer chemoprevention.}, author={Salvatore Toma and Pier Luigi Losardo and Marc Vincent and Rosanna Palumbo}, journal={European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation}, year={1995}, volume={4 3}, pages={ 213-24 } }
This article reviews the current knowledge on the cancer-preventive potential of beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, and plentiful in fruits and vegetables, which has been studied widely as a promising chemopreventive agent in reducing the risk of cancer in humans. Several retrospective and prospective epidemiological investigations have demonstrated that a diet rich in micronutrients such as vitamins, carotenoids and selenium, could prevent the arising, in 'high-risk' patients, of…
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