Vitamin A helps combat cancer

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Vitamin A helps combat cancer

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Vitamin A found in foods such as carrots and broccoli could help combat pancreatic cancer.

16 November,2011 02:24 pm

Once diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, most patients do not survive more than 1 year.Dr Hemant Kocher of Barts Cancer Institute in London and The London NHS Trust, who led the four-year joint project with Cambridge University and the Hub-recht Institute in Holland, found that raising levels of Vitamin A in healthy cells around the cancerous ones can inhibit cancer growth.