They found CRBP in all 15 of the samples from breast-reduction patients. But the protein was not seen in 12 of the 49 actual tumors. For these women, eating extra carrots or taking supplements may be useless. Any clinical application of these findings is quite a ways off, but if the researcher's hunches are correct, CRBP could be a marker for a predisposition to breast cancer that patients could be tested for. More important, the problem should not be especially difficult to correct.
Retinoic acid is the active form of vitamin A in the body.
He says the findings are important because they point researchers in an entirely new direction. All rights reserved. All rights reserved.