Micronutrients in cancer prevention
1994
Lachance, P.A.
The human body is composed of sixty three trillion cells plus or minus a few hundred billion. Each day a typical human cell undergoes five thousand mutations. Each mutation of course can lead to the initiation of cancer but it usually does not because a particular mutation does not necessarily occur in both strands of the DNA helix and therefore is repairable. A number of factors contribute to the repair of the mutations, but several of these factors play a significant role in dissipating the initiators which cause the mutation--be they exogenously or endogenously generated free radicals or chemical constituents such as peroxide. This paper discusses the protective effects of micronutrients.
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