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Prostate Cancer

Vitamin E study is called 'tremendously significant' in search for cure

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 21st, 2002

Nutritional supplements such as vitamin E may be able to stop prostate cancer before it starts, according to health researchers.

They point to a major new trial involving 30,000 men to study the potential of vitamin E and also of a mineral, selenium, to help prevent onset of prostate cancer, which strikes about one in six men during their lifetimes.

One professor of clinical cancer prevention in Texas said the new trial is "tremendously significant," and a Cleveland Clinic physician has suggested that men enroll in the study, open to healthy men 55 and over, or 50 years and over for African American males.

In the trial, being...

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