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Volume 155, Number 17 (April 24, 1999)

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Antioxidants may limit key mutations

Among patients with head and neck cancers, those who have been taking antioxidant vitamins have fewer mutations in their cancer suppressor p53 genes.

References:

Brotzman, M., . . . and B. Trok. 1999. Vitamin supplement use and p53 mutations in head and neck cancer. Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. April. Philadelphia.

Sources:

Bruce Trok
Georgetown University Medical Center
2233 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Suite 535
Washignton, DC 20007

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 17, April 24, 1999, p. 271. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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