Vitamin E and oral cancer
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Building on previous success in reversing "premalignant oral leukoplakia" with vitamin E preparations, Xinbin Gu, et al., Howard University (Washington, D.C.), report nutrient also "has an ability to induce oral cancer cell apoptosis through a ceramide-signaling pathway." In research using hamster oral cancer cells presented in poster abstract at AACR meeting, investigators say "these results suggested a mechanism for [vitamin E] inhibition during oral carcinogenesis that is initiated by changes in the plasma membrane of [the] transforming cell"