A study conducted on 15000 US men has revealed that Vitamin C or E pill has no connection with lowering cancer.
Participants were divided into four groups. Members of all the four groups were given vitamin E, vitamin C, both, or dummy pills.
After an average of eight years it was found that the people who had high hopes on Vitamin pills too suffered from cancer. There were 1,929 cases of cancer, including 1,013 cases of prostate cancer. Overall, 490 men taking vitamin E developed prostate cancer compared to 523 in the placebo group.
"After nearly 10 years of supplementation with either vitamin E or vitamin C, we found no evidence supporting the use of either supplement in the prevention of cancer," said Howard D. Sesso, Sc.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "While vitamin E and C supplement use did not produce any protective benefits, they also did not cause any harm," he added.
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