Folic acid may reduce some childhood cancers

Monday, May 21, 2012 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

Folic acid fortification of foods may reduce the incidence of the most common type of kidney cancer and a type of brain tumors in children, finds a new study. Incidence reductions were found for Wilms' tumor, a type of kidney cancer, and primitive neuroectodermal tumors, a type of brain cancer.

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