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Research: SHKLAR and OH, Dep
Listed in Issue 54
Abstract
SHKLAR and OH, Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts USA. gerald_shklar@hms.harvard.edu review (103 references) the literature regarding the significant cancer preventive potential of vitamin E.
Background
Methodology
Results
Vitamin E has been shown to possess cancer preventive properties in many different cancer sites, ranging from oral and pharyngeal to prostate cancer. There is an extensive experimental basis for this clinical cancer inhibition, with the experimental background including animal studies (experimental pathology, immunology and molecular biology, synergism, selectivity and safety), in vitro biochemical studies, and human studies (epidemiology and biomarkers, prevention of many pathologic entities other than cancer.
Conclusion
References
Shklar G and Oh SK. Experimental basis for cancer prevention by vitamin E. Cancer Investigation 18(3): 214-22. 2000.
