Prostate cancer: Neither vitamin e nor selenium prevent prostate cancer

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 187-188

  Allen, Naomi E ^a   Key, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; SELENIUM;

CANCER PREVENTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SHORT SURVEY; VALIDATION STUDY; DIET THERAPY; MALE; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SELENIUM; VITAMIN E;

EID: 70350197017     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2009.47     Document Type: Short Survey

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