Increased Prostate Cancer Risk from Vitamin E Supplements

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

Men who took 400 international units (I.U.) of vitamin E daily had more prostate cancers compared to men who took a placebo, according to an updated review of data from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention (SELECT) Trial. The results of this update will appear October 12, 2011, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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