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Question: you know how you said that vitamin A cures developing tumors, can it help slow down the spreading of a tumor that has already been formed ??
- Keywords:
  cancer,
  vitamin,
  vitamin a
Asked by lizzietheboss to Jemma on 1 Jun 2012.
- Jemma Ransom answered on 1 Jun 2012:
  
  Hi @lizzietheboss,
  
  So what you are talking about here is a process called ‘tumour metastasis’ where cells from a primary tumour break away and begin building a new tumour elsewhere. What vitamin A does (or more importantly its’ breakdown product retinoic acid) is to slow tumour growth by inhibiting something called proliferation where cells divide to make more tumour cells. I don’t think that it vitamin A has been tried in a secondary tumour, but I suspect when we have improved the treatment package with this drug that we would be able to slow down secondary tumours.
  
  But again this hasn’t been tried yet.
  
  Jemma

Question: you know how you said that vitamin A cures developing tumors, can it help slow down the spreading of a tumor that has already been formed ??