IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention

By IARC and IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Cancer Preventive Agents

Over the past twenty years, there has been an intense interest in stud ying vitamin A as an active chemopreventive agent. Observational epide miological studies have not shown consistent cancer-preventive effects . Vitamin A, often in combination with other compounds, has been studi ed in several randomized trials. Overall, there is little evidence tha t supplementation for a few years would reduce the risk of any type of cancer. This book summarizes and evaluates the existing evidence on t he cancer-preventive activity of vitamin A. On 13-19 May 1998, a worki ng group of international experts met in Lyon to evaluate the existing evidence on the cancer-preventive activity of retinol and retinyl est ers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9283230035
• ISBN13: 9789283230038
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 290 Pages