Article: Prenatal vitamins lower risk of brain tumor.

Women who took vitamin supplements, specifically vitamins C, A, E, and/or folate, throughout their pregnancy were half as likely to have a child who developed a brain tumor before age five. The finding was presented at a recent Environmental Protection Agency conference on preventable causes of cancer in children (Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 15 October 1997). The longer the women took vitamins, be they over-the-counter or prescription, the greater the protection against cancer.

Dr. Susan Preston-Martin collected data on 377 children with brain tumors and 576 healthy children. For ...

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