Beta-Carotene and lung cancer promotion in heavy smokers--a plausible relationship?

J Natl Cancer Inst. 1996 Nov 6;88(21):1513-5. doi: 10.1093/jnci/88.21.1516-a.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Antioxidants / administration & dosage
  • Antioxidants / adverse effects*
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms / chemically induced*
  • Lung Neoplasms / prevention & control
  • Smoking / adverse effects*
  • Vitamin A / administration & dosage
  • Vitamin A / adverse effects*
  • Vitamin A / blood
  • beta Carotene / administration & dosage
  • beta Carotene / adverse effects*
  • beta Carotene / blood

Substances

  • Antioxidants
  • beta Carotene
  • Vitamin A