IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention: Carotenoids

IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention

IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, Volume 7: Breast Cancer Screening

The latest publication in the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) series of Handbooks of Cancer Prevention is focused on breast cancer screening. The monograph is the outcome of a weeklong meeting of the Working Group on the Evaluation of Cancer-Preventive Strategies that took place in Lyon, France, March 5–12, 2002. The decision to produce a handbook on breast cancer screening...

IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention 2.2.2.2 Commercial sources

46 2.2.3.3 Use and application Canthaxanthin (ECI61g) is approved for use as a food additive in the European Community but only for the colouring of Strasbourg sausages to a level of 15 mg/kg (Klepsch & Baltas, 1994). The predominant uses of canthaxanthin are in feed for laying hens, in order to colour egg yolks, in broiler production and in salmon and trout farming. Canthaxanthin has been mark...

Cancer prevention by carotenoids.

Various natural carotenoids seem to be valuable for cancer prevention, and these carotenoids may be more suitable in combinational use, rather than in single use. In fact, we have proven that combinational use of natural carotenoids resulted in significant suppression of liver cancer. Patients of viral hepatitis with cirrhosis were administered with beta-cryptoxanthin-enriched Mandarin orange j...

Carotenoids in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developed society. Since oxidative stress and inflammation are key players in the etiology of CVD, it is conceivable that natural antioxidants such as carotenoids, existing in fruits and vegetables, may help in preventing the CVD onset. More than 700 carotenoids have been identified, among them β-carotene, α-carote...