Vitamin Supplements And Cancer

Do vitamin supplements protect us against cancer. No they don’t.

Not only do vitamin supplements not protect against gastro-intestinal cancer, they may slightly increase the risk of cancer, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of previously published randomised trials in this week�s issue of THE LANCET, a leading British medical journal.

The investigators identified 14 randomised trials totalling over 170,000 participants. Overall, the results did not show any protective effect of supplementation with beta-carotene, vitamins A, C, E, and selenium (alone or in combination) compared with placebo on oesophageal, gastric, colorectal, pancreatic, and liver cancer incidences.

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