Source: Spine  |  Posted 9 years ago

Carotenoids may well protect women against breast cancer, a study from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland and Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States, has concluded.

This suggestion adds weight to those of earlier studies that the antioxidant properties of carotenoids and vitamin E ([]g[]-tocopherol) and the role of vitamin A in cellular differentiation may be linked with a reduced risk of subsequent breast cancer.

Reiko Sato and colleagues compared 295 women who gave blood for a serum bank in 1974 or 1989 with 295 controls matched on a range of factors. The investigators were looking for the association between serum and plasma concentrations of retinol, retinyl palmitate, []a[]-carotene,