The Claim
Long-term supplementation with 400 IU of synthetic vitamin E every other day and 500 mg of synthetic vitamin C daily for over 10 years has no measurable effect on the incidence of total cancer, prostate cancer, or other site-specific cancers in healthy male physicians aged 50 and older.
What the research says
Supports is higher
Support is ahead, but a single strong opposing study can change this.
These are independent scores, not a percentage. Higher-grade studies count more, so a single strong opposing study can outweigh several weaker ones.
Taking 400 IU of synthetic vitamin E every other day and 500 mg of synthetic vitamin C every day for more than 10 years does not change the rate of cancer diagnosis in healthy male physicians aged 50 and older.
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Long-term supplementation with 400 IU of synthetic vitamin E every other day and 500 mg of synthetic vitamin C daily for over 10 years has no measurable effect on the incidence of total cancer, prostate cancer, or other site-specific cancers in healthy male physicians aged 50 and older.
Taking vitamin E and vitamin C every other day and daily for over 10 years does not change how often healthy cells in the body turn cancerous or how fast any early cancers grow, because these vitamins do not stop the natural mistakes in DNA that cause cancer or block the body’s normal ways of removing damaged cells.
What the research says
1 studyThis big study gave older male doctors vitamin E and C pills for over 10 years and found they got cancer at the same rate as those who took dummy pills — so the vitamins didn’t help or hurt their cancer risk.
Score breakdown, mechanism chain, raw evidence, ideal studies needed & 1 supporting studies
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