Vitamin E seems to reduce the risk of prostate cancer
July 1998
Vitamin E seems to reduce the risk of prostate cancer.
There are always lots of vitamin studies, and hopeful claims,but this one looks like it might pan out.
Men taking 50 IU of vitamin E a day are about a third lesslikely to develop prostate cancer. It seems to prevent smallcancerous cells in the prostate from becoming more advanced.
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