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Review
. 1979;3(4):207-15.
doi: 10.1007/BF00254733.

Retinoids and cancer

W Bollag
Review

Retinoids and cancer

W Bollag. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 1979.

Abstract

The early and recent investigations in the field of retinoids and cancer are reviewed. The retinoids, including natural vitamin A compounds and their synthetic analogs, present a new class of substances exerting a prophylactic and a therapeutic effect both in certain experimental tumor models and in certain clinical conditions of preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions. Because of a particular physiological mechanism of action, the retinoids offer a new approach to the cancer problem, which is different from those of surgery, X-ray therapy, conventional chemotherapy, and immunotherapy.

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