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Because chemotherapy is often ineffective for the treatment of cancer, considerable efforts are being made to develop agents for “chemoprevention” that would prevent cancers from developing in the first place. Furthermore understanding the antitumorigenic mechanisms should further our comprehension of carcinogenesis mechanisms. In the following, possible molecular mechanisms by which antioxidants inhibit carcinogenesis are reviewed.
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O’Brien, P.J. (1994). Antioxidants and Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms. In: Armstrong, D. (eds) Free Radicals in Diagnostic Medicine. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 366. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1833-4_16
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