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Liver vitamin A concentration in patients who died of cancer
J Ostrowski1, D Jarosz, E Butruk
1Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Medical Center of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland.
Neoplasma
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
The concentrations of vitamin A in liver samples obtained at autopsy of patients who died of cancer was investigated. It was found that liver vitamin A levels in cancer patients were significantly lower than in controls. Although our recent results have suggested that the decreased serum retinol level in cancer patients reflects rather a functional impairment of vitamin A release from the liver, the results of this study suggest that this phenomenon can also indicate a true vitamin A deficiency in patients with neoplastic process.