Should you take a vitamin with copper?

Copper may encourage cancer growth and metastasis.

Copper is an essential trace mineral that we have to have to be healthy.

While Copper plays a critical role in a variety of basic biological functions, it also serves as a key component in a number of copper-dependent enzymes that regulate such processes as cancer cell proliferation, growth of blood vessels to tumors, and cancer metastasis. Copper is essential to metastatic cancer progression, and may have a role in tumor growth, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and the formation of the tumor microenvironment and pre-metastatic niche.

Medical research on copper depletion has emerged as a novel therapeutic strategy in the treatment of metastatic cancer.

Reference Source

Lopez J, Ramchandani D, Vahdat L. Copper Depletion as a Therapeutic Strategy in Cancer. Met Ions Life Sci. 2019 Jan 14; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30855113/

Originally posted: July 22, 2009