Study Links Natural B Vitamin Folate And Cancer Prevention

Folate is a natural B-vitamin that plays a role in DNA creation, repair and function as well as red blood cell production. A new study reports that people with higher levels of folate in their red blood cells were more likely to have two cancer-preventing genes shut down by methylation — a chemical off switch for gene.

Co-author Jean-Pierre Issa, M.D., professor in MD Anderson’s Department of Leukemia explains they study