- Taking vitamin E and vitamin C supplements may not make cancer less likely, a new study shows.
That finding comes from the Physicians’ Health Study II, which recently showed that taking vitamin C and vitamin E supplements may not lower the risk of heart attack or stroke.
Researchers have now analyzed study data on cancer risk and found no sign of lower cancer risk in people taking vitamin E and vitamin C supplements daily during the study.
After following the progress of 32,269 post-menopausal women for 11 years scientists found that vigorous exercise can reduce the risk of breast cancer by almost a third. It seems that a sedentary lifestyle can be a risk factor for the disease even among the women who are not overweight. Nevertheless activities such as scrubbing floors chopping wood, digging, fast jogging, tennis, bicycling or dancing are important in order to prevent the disease.
Thursday October 30, 2008, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — A study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute found that supplementation of vitamin E and selenium may do more harm than good in men with regard to the risk of prostate cancer.
The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) showed that taking vitamin E or selenium supplements or combination of the two did not seem to reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer in men age 50.
SUNDAY, Nov. 16 — Coming on the heels of two studies discounting the usefulness of vitamin B, folic acid, vitamin D and calcium supplements for cancer prevention, U.S. researchers report that vitamins C and E supplements won’t help prevent cancer, either.
The same team also recently reported that vitamin C and E supplements weren’t helpful in protecting users against heart disease.
“At least in the context of two very common outcomes — cardioprotection and chemoprevention — we see no compelling evidence to take vitamin E or C supplements,” said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Howard Sesso, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
TUESDAY, Nov. 4 — Taking folic acid or other B vitamin supplements won’t lower your risk of cancer, new research shows.
However, the good news is that it won’t increase your risk either, according to the study, which was published in the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“In women at risk of cardiovascular disease, we found that folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 had no beneficial or harmful effects on the risk of invasive cancer or breast cancer,” said study author Dr. Shumin Zhang, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.
TUESDAY, Nov. 4 — Taking folic acid or other B vitamin supplements won’t lower your risk of cancer, new research shows.
However, the good news is that it won’t increase your risk either, according to the study, which was published in the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“In women at risk of cardiovascular disease, we found that folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 had no beneficial or harmful effects on the risk of invasive cancer or breast cancer,” said study author Dr. Shumin Zhang, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.