Background. Vitamin deficiency may be related to carcinogenesis. Cytologic examinations of sputum have already found that the administration of folate and vitamin B,, suppressed the development of squamous metaplasia and atypia in smokers' airways. The authors investigated the effect of folic acid,
Experimental cancer of the lung. Inhibition by vitamin A of the induction of tracheobronchial squamous metaplasia and squamous cell tumors
โ Scribed by U. Saffiotti; R. Montesano; A. R. Sellakumar; S. A. Borg
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1967
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 860 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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