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A new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week, claims that vitamin E does not decrease the risk of prostate cancer -- as was once believed -- but may contribute to it.
The research followed over 35,000 healthy and middle-aged men, who took 400mg pills of vitamin E or placebo every day. The risk of cancer increased 17% for the test group. 423 research sites participated in the study.
The study began in 2000 with the premise that prostate cancer would be diminished by 25% with enough vitamin E consumption. Vitamin E is an antioxidant, which meant it was supposed to help "prevent the kind of DNA damage associated" with cancer. However, in 2008, the study was cut off when no positive results were noticed. After examining the data over the course of three years, researchers were able to determine a significant risk.
One criticism of the study steadied the claim that vitamin E increased the risk, because the correlation of increased cancer rates with vitamin E does not prove causation.
This is the second time prostate cancer science has taken a hit this week. A government-sponsored task force earlier recommended against prostate cancer screenings, claiming they too do not help, and may have unintended risks.
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