Oct 17
Taking a daily multivitamin could slightly decrease men’s risk of cancer, according to a large new study being presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study, conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is based on 14,641 male doctors ages 50 and older who participated in the Physicians’ Health Study II. Some of the men were randomly assigned to take a daily multivitamin between 1997 and 2011, while others were assigned not to.
By the end of the study period, 2,669 new cases of cancer had developed, of which 1,373 cases were of prostate cancer and 210 cases were of colorectal cancer.
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