Vitamins and Cancer: Human Cancer Prevention by Vitamins and Micronutrients

by Kedar N. Prasad and Frank L. Meyskens Jr.

Book Overview

In the past five years, a surprising and intense resurgence in interest in vitamins and other micronutrients and their role in health and dis- ease has occurred. The recognition has emerged that vitamins not only are essential for life -in that severe nutritional deficiencies occur in their absence, but that these compounds may also serve as natural inhibitors of cancer. Synthetic alterations of the basic vitamin A mole- cule have also resulted in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461293952
• ISBN13: 9781461293958
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"