Three More Things That Don’t Prevent Prostate Cancer

It’s not exactly a done deal, but it looks lik three nutrients – vitamin E, selenium and soy – that once appeared to help ward off prostate cancer, may not do the trick. HealthDay reports on a Canadian study that randomly assigned 303 men with precancerous lesions to receive soy protein, vitamin E and
selenium, or a placebo. Over three years, HealthDay reports, 26 percent of the men did develop invasive prostate
cancer, and the three nutrients did not seem to minimize that
risk. The results, HealthDay reports, confirm the findings of the two other recent trials, published in the Jan.
7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Other recent studies have suggested that vitamins, B, C, D, E, folic
acid and calcium taken alone, or in various combinations, aren’t
effective for cancer prevention. Where’s the good news? The researchers did concede that the supplements may prevent prostate cancer before precancerous lesions have formed.
Read an abstract of the study published in JAMA.
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