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...what explains the discrepancies between the results of SELECT and previous studies? For one thing, says Dr. William Nelson, director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, the participants of the Finnish study were cigarette smokers, and may have suffered more oxidative damage in their cells than the average person. If smoking had caused excessive damage to their cells, then they would be more likely to benefit from any antioxidant effects provided by the vitamin supplements. In other words, perhaps people with lower levels of the vitamin in their blood to start - whether...
There is something undeniably alluring about being able to prevent cancer with a vitamin. More than half of American adults take vitamin supplements, not only to make up for deficiencies in their diet, but also in the hope of staving off diseases like cancer and heart disease. Though these recent trials - including two big studies in November that showed no benefit of vitamins E and C for heart disease, or vitamin D and calcium against invasive breast cancer - don't support that idea, they don't rule out the possibility that getting vitamins from dietary sources rather than supplements could...
Given the large size of these new studies, however, some experts doubt that future research will controvert them. "If the focus is preventing prostate cancer, then there is nothing you can go to the health-food store and get in a bottle," says Dr. Patrick Walsh, a leading prostate-cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "Men are fooling themselves if they think that...
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...students have put the musical before their studies. While Shoag claims he was very sensitive to this issue, there is a chance that HMS may still be putting its musicals before its curriculum: neither the show’s producers nor HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier could identify the cancer slide shown on the back of the program as part of an ad by the Pathology department. “It looks pretty nasty though,” Flier says. —Mia P. Walker