Researchers are looking into the roles played by vitamins and other nutrients, obesity, and environmental toxins
Preventing cancer is obviously the easiest—and preferable—way to save lives. So researchers are preaching what we know to do and investigating what we don’t. Carel Stith is doing his part: The 63-year-old Houston lawyer is participating in a trial at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center he hopes will tell him whether, as some research has hinted, taking selenium and vitamin E supplements can stave off prostate cancer. He heard about the trial from a neighbor. “Right before that, my oldest son’s godfather found out he had prostate cancer,” he says. “Two weeks later, my ex-brother-in-law was diagnosed. I thought, gee, I should know a little more about this.”
Vitamins and minerals are one avenue of research; in addition to the possible influence of vitamin E and selenium (for reasons unknown), there’s a mounting pile of studies associating increased intake of vitamin D with a lower risk of cancer, perhaps because it plays a role in controlling the expression of genes regulating cell division. Read the complete article.
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