Study Dashes Hope That Vitamin May Help Cancer Patients
[06/21/2000; Reuters News Service]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two compounds that scientists hoped
would help prevent cancer in the lungs or elsewhere in the body
have shown no benefit in patients with smoking-related cancer,
a large new study has found. The agents, vitamin A and an antioxidant
called N-acetylcysteine, do not halt cancer spread or prevent
a second tumor in those with lung cancer or cancers of the head
and neck, according to Dr. Nico van Zandwijk of The Netherlands
Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, and colleagues. It was hoped that
taking supplements of the two agents, which work differently
but had shown promise in smaller studies, would be beneficial
to such patients.
The full article can be found at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000621/hl/vitamin_1.html
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