VITAMIN E, VITAMIN C & SELENIUM DO NOT PREVENT CANCER

Postscript:  A Possible Cure for Down’s Syndrome

By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS

2008 12 14

These past 5 years have seen the dashing of the hopes of many cancer physicians and researchers who, like me, had hoped that antioxidant vitamin supplements would prove to be potent cancer prevention agents.  These hopes were built up over the previous decade as multiple clinical and laboratory studies reported encouraging results with Vitamin E, Vitamin C and selenium in the prevention of breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other types of cancer.  However, most of these studies were performed using research methods that are far less rigorous than the “gold standard” prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial….([1] Full Story)