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12/11/07
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Heavy Multivitamin Use May Raise Prostate Cancer Risk
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TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Popping more than one multivitamin a day could boost a man's risk for prostate cancer by nearly a third, according to a new study from the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
"Taking them more than seven times a week was associated with a 32 percent increased risk of advanced prostate and for fatal prostate cancer [it had] nearly a doubling of risk, compared to men who did not take multivitamins," said researcher Dr. Michael F. Leitzmann, an investigator in the NCI's division of cancer epidemiology and genetics. On the other hand, "Taking multivitamins seven times a week was not associated with an increased incidence of prostate cancer," he added. The association with heavy use of multivitamins and increased risk was strongest for men with a prior family history of prostate cancer or those who took individual micronutrient supplements such as selenium, beta-carotene or zinc, said a report by Leitzmann and his colleagues in the Journal of the Nat Read the Complete Article Similar content: High Dose Radiation for Prostate Cancer Won't Raise Sexual Dysfunction, in Prostate Cancer Acrylamide Won't Raise Breast Cancer Risk, in Prostate Cancer Antioxidant Supplements May Raise Women's Skin Cancer Risk, in Prostate Cancer Prostate Cancer Gene Also Raises Colon Cancer Risk, in Prostate Cancer Health Tip: Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer, in Prostate Cancer |
