As a micro-nutrient to support human life, vitamin cannot synthesize by human body, but can be acquired from food. Little vitamin can meet the demands of human body and it is necessary. Not that many people know the occurrence of cancer is related to deficiency of vitamin. Therefore, some vitamins are indispensable to prevent cancer.

Vitamin A

A study from Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou indicated that, vitamin A can stop and constrain the growth of cancer cells and takes obvious effect on preventing gastro-intestinal cancer and prostate cancer. It can restore the function of normal tissue and help patients in chemotherapy to reduce cancer incidence. The food rich in vitamin A includes: tomato, carrot, spinach, Chinese chive, pepper, apricot, animal internal organs, ichthyotoxin and dairy products.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is also called avitamic acid, which can reduce the concentration of nitrosamine, a kind of carcinogenic substance in human body. Besides, it extremely cuts down the incidence of esophageal cancer and stomach cancer. Vegetables and fruits are rich in vitamin C, such as pepper, bitter melon, green onion, radish leave, rape, sweet violet, tomato and so on.

Vitamin E

The food with much vitamin E can help to improve body immunity and prevent cancer from occurrence. Another study in Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou proved that vitamin E can prevent prostate cancer and bladder cancer. This vitamin mainly exists in plants, especially the bean oil. Except that, egg, grain, carrot, lettuce etc. contain this vitamin much too.

B vitamin

B vitamin includes vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and so on. They not only can constrain cancer cells from growth, but also help human body to synthesize some important enzyme and adjust internal metabolism. Grain, beans, yeast, dry nut and animal organs are rich in B vitamin.

Specialists from Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou warmly remind that, the vitamin in normal diets can meet the demand of human body, it is not necessary to take vitamin tablets as supplement, otherwise, that may cause untoward effect.

*Surgery, in addition to the appropriate chemotherapy and radiotherapy, are effective in treating early cancer, but certain patients in late stage of cancer may not be tolerate surgery well as they can be relatively weak. A combination of carefully planned minimally invasive therapy, chemotherapy or radiotherapy can effectively reduce the side effects and discomfort of treatment and may help patient get better efficacy.