A recent review of the SeleniumandVitaminECancer Prevention Trialshowedlong-term, regularuse of VitaminE supplements increase theriskofprostate cancer in healthymen.
In December, an analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association regarding theSeleniumand Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial trial found that neither of the supplements provided a benefit in prostate cancer prevention.
TheSeleniumand Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial involving 35, 000 U.S. and Canadian men was halted in October when researchers determined that selenium was not protecting the men from prostate cancer and may have been causing diabetes in some of them.
Some experts have suggested that it may be more effective to supplement the minerals such as zinc andselenium that the body uses to produce catalase, MSR A and B, and tyrosinase, rather than take them directly.