Selenium Supplementation and Cancer Prevention
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Selenium and cancer prevention.
protection selenium provides against certain cancers that I have been taking daily selenium yeast supple ments (100-400 jxg)for 4 years, I am perplexed by the selection of cancers to be studied in related doubleblind clinical trials, namely those of the liver, skin and esophagus. In 1986, I published details of in excess of 13,000 correlations between the distributions of 219 environ mental var...
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The essential trace mineral, selenium, has been the focus of an increasing number of research studies since the 1996 report that it decreased the risk of some common cancers. Prospective studies have generally shown some benefit of higher selenium status on the risk of prostate, lung, colorectal, and bladder cancers but trials have had mixed findings, likely highlighting the fact that supplemen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Nutrition Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2161-3311
DOI: 10.1007/s13668-011-0003-x