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Carrots, broccoli combat cancer

An international team, led by an Indian-origin scientist, has suggested that vitamin A found in foods such as carrots and broccoli could help combat pancreatic cancer, which has the lowest survival rate of all cancers.  Once diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, most patients do not survive more than 1 year. Dr Hemant Kocher of Barts Cancer Institute inLondon and The London NHS Trust, who led the four-year joint project with Cambridge University and the Hub-recht Institute in Holland, found that raising levels of Vitamin A in healthy cells around the cancerous ones can inhibit cancer growth.