Vitamin E and Selenium No Preventives

Speculation that vitamin E and the antioxidant known as selenium might be able to prevent prostate cancer was laid to rest by a trial co-chaired by Eric Klein, MD, chair of the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute. The trial, known as the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT), which involved 35,533 healthy men, was the largest clinical trial of chemoprevention for cancer ever run. It was halted early when researchers found the supplements provided no benefit.