Relationship between breast cancer and vitamin A and family history of Iraq women population

Breast cancer is the most prevalent malignant type all over the world including Iraq. Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that is also powerful antioxidant. The mean value ± SE of family history for control, benign, malignant and radiotherapic breast cancer showed a non-significant change in the comparison of groups according to the Duncan test. The levels of vitamin A showed significant differences (p<0.05) when compared with the radiotherapic group. Serum estimation used High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) assay. The aim of this study was to evaluate antioxidant vitamin A in the radiotherapy, malignant and benign groups related to the control group.