Now Vitamin A Said to Stop Pre-Cancerous Breast Cells From Turning Malignant
A couple of weeks ago we learned that Vitamin D might prevent breast cancer. Now researchers are turning to a new letter in the alphabet. They're saying that a derivative of Vitamin A , known as retinoic acid, found abundantly in sweet potato and carrots, helps turn pre-cancer cells back to normal healthy breast cells. Wish we'd known that nine years ago, when my first pre-cancerous breast cells were found. The vitamin doesn’t appear to change "the course of full-blown cancer, only pre-cancerous cells, and only works at a very narrow dose," according to newswise.com, reporting on the study. Scientists created a model of breast cancer progression composed of four types of cells each one representing a different stage of breast cancer: normal, pre-cancerous, cancerous and a fully aggressive model. "When the researchers exposed the four breast cell types to different concentrations of retinoic acid – one of the chemicals that the body con...