Vitamin E and Selenium doesn't prevent Prostate cancer

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http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20081028/prostate-cancer-prevention-st\

udy-halted

 

I wonder if this is valid and if it is, does it mean it doesn't help

other cancers either.

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Mike V,

 

Who is financing WebMd? It looks like a front for conventional medicine factories - pharmas. In one of its article below the website you indicated, it said there is no alternative cure for prostate cancer, and that one should go to his MD who will lead him for treatment. Yeah sure ... welllll there goes the answer to your question.

 

Melly

[Guest guest]

Here is a brand new article from orthomoleculear...about vitamin e preventing lung cancer.

 

Melly

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 29, 2008

Vitamin E Prevents Lung CancerNews Media Virtually Silent on Positive Vitamin Research

(OMNS, October 29, 2008) Researchers at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center have found that taking more vitamin E substantially reduces lung cancer. Their new study shows that people consuming the highest amounts of vitamin E had the greatest benefit. When they compared persons taking the most vitamin E with those taking the least, there was a 61% reduction in lung cancer risk. (1)

Lung cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer on earth; over 1.3 million people are diagnosed with it each year. With medical treatment, survival rates are "consistently poor," says Cancer Research UK. Lung cancer kills nearly 1.2 million per year. It accounts for 12% of all cancers, but results in 18% of all cancer deaths. (2) Anything that can reduce these dismal facts is important news . . .very important. Yet the mainstream media have virtually ignored vitamin E's important role as a cancer fighter.

A sixty-one percent reduction in lung cancer with vitamin E? How could the news media have missed this one?

The news media probably did not miss it: they simply did not report it. They are biased. You can see for yourself what bias there is. Try a "Google" search for any of the major newspapers or broadcast media, using the name of the news organization along with the phrase "vitamin E lung cancer." When you do, you will find that it will quickly bring up previous items alleging that vitamin E might (somehow) increase cancer risk. You will find little or nothing at all on how vitamin E prevents cancer. Indeed, the bias is so strong that even a qualified search for "increased vitamin E reduces lung cancer" will still, and preferentially, bring up media coverage alleging that vitamin E is harmful. Negative reporting sells newspapers and pulls in viewing audiences. The old editors' adage must still be true: "If it bleeds, it leads."

Here's more positive vitamin E cancer research that the media "missed." A study in 2002 looked at patients with colon cancer "who received a daily dose of 750 mg of vitamin E during a period of 2 weeks. Short-term supplementation with high doses of dietary vitamin E leads to increased CD4:CD8 ratios and to enhanced capacity by their T cells to produce the T helper 1 cytokines interleukin 2 and IFN-gamma. In 10 of 12 patients, an increase of 10% or more (average, 22%) in the number of T cells producing interleukin 2 was seen after 2 weeks of vitamin E supplementation." The authors concluded that "dietary vitamin E may be used to improve the immune functions in patients with advanced cancer." That improvement was achieved in a mere two weeks merits special attention. (3)

Was it on the news? Did you hear about how high doses of vitamin E help cancer patients' immune systems in only two weeks? Why not? Might the answer possibly have anything to do with money? One cannot watch television or read a magazine or newspaper without it being obvious that drug company cash is one of the media's very largest sources of revenue. Given where their advertising income comes from, it is hardly a big surprise that media reporting on vitamins is biased. Well-publicized vitamin scares feed the pharmaceutical industry. Successful reports of safe, inexpensive vitamin therapy do not.

One commentator has observed that pharmaceutical and other "corporations marshal huge public relations efforts on behalf of their agendas. In the United States the 170,000 public relations employees whose job it is to manipulate news, public opinion and public policy in the interests of their clients outnumber news reporters by 40,000." (4) Another commentator wrote that "Janine Jackson of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a news media watchdog group, told the American Free Press that 60 percent of journalists surveyed by FAIR admitted that advertisers 'try to change stories (and) there is an overwhelming influence of corporations and advertisers' on broadcast and print news reporting." (5)

Drug companies don't have any drug that can reduce lung cancer risk by 61%. If they did, you would have heard all about it in their advertisements. And it would be all over the news. Positive drug studies get the headlines. Positive vitamin studies rarely do. This is an enormous public health problem with enormous consequences. A cynic might say that press and television coverage of a vitamin study tends to be inversely proportionate to the study's clinical usefulness. Truly valuable research does not scare people; it helps people get well. It would be difficult to identify anything more helpful than actively reporting the story when a vitamin is shown to reduce lung cancer by 61%.

The good news about how important high quantities of vitamin E are in combating cancer is not arising out of nowhere. A US National Library of Medicine MEDLINE search will bring up over 3,000 studies on the subject, some dating back to 1946. By the early 1950s, research clearly supported the use of vitamin E against cancer. (6) Before 1960, vitamin E was shown to reduce the side effects of radiation cancer treatment. (7) In reviewing vitamin E research, one notes that the high-dose studies got the best results.

Vitamin E is not the sure cure for cancer. It is not certain prevention, either. Stopping cigarette smoking is essential. But vitamin E is part of the solution, and we need more of it. An independent panel of physicians and researchers (8) has recently called for increasing the daily recommended intake for vitamin E to 200 IU. The present US RDA/DRI is a mere 15-20 IU/day.

It is time to raise it. A lot.

References:

(1) Mahabir S, Schendel K, Dong YQ, Barrera SL, Spitz MR, Forman MR. Dietary alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherols in lung cancer risk. Int J Cancer. 2008 Sep 1;123(5):1173-80. (2) http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/geographic/world/commoncancers/ (3) Malmberg KJ, Lenkei R, Petersson M et al. A short-term dietary supplementation of high doses of vitamin E increases T helper 1 cytokine production in patients with advanced colorectal cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2002 Jun; 8(6):1772-8. (4) Robbins R. Global problems and the culture of capitalism.

Allyn and Bacon, 1999, p 138. http://www.globalissues.org/article/160/media-and-advertising (5) Prestage J. Mainstream journalism: Shredding the First Amendment. Online Journal, November 7, 2002. http://www.globalissues.org/article/160/media-and-advertising (6) Telford IR. The influence of alpha tocopherol on lung tumors in strain A mice. Tex Rep Biol Med. 1955;13(3):515-21. Swick RW, Baumann CA, Miller WL Jr, Rumsfeld HW Jr. Tocopherol in tumor tissues and effects of tocopherol on the development of liver tumors. Cancer Res. 1951 Dec;11(12):948-53. (7) Fischer W. [The protective effect of tocopherol against toxic phenomena connected with the roentgen irradiation of mammary carcinoma.] Munch Med Wochenschr. 1959 Sep 4;101:1487-8. German. Also: Sabatini C, Balli L, Tagliavini R. [Effects of vitamin E and testosterone in comparisons of skin exposed to high doses of roentgen rays administered by semi-contact technic.] Riforma Med. 1955 Apr 30;69(18):Suppl, 1-4. Italian. See also: Graham JB, Graham RM. Enhanced effectiveness of radiotherapy in cancer of the uterine cervix. Surg Forum. 1953;(38th Congress):332-8.

(8) Doctors say, Raise the RDAs now. Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 30, 2007. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v03n10.shtml

For more information: Many full-text nutrition and vitamin therapy research papers are posted for free access at http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom .

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

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[Guest guest]

Healthynews.com today had an article about NCI's new fraudulent attack on

vitamin E.

 

oleander soup , melly banagale <tita_mel wrote:

>

> Mike V,

>  

> Who is financing WebMd?  It looks like a front for conventional medicine

factories - pharmas.  In one of its article below the website you indicated, it

said there is no alternative cure for prostate cancer, and that one should go to

his MD who will lead him for treatment.  Yeah sure ... welllll there goes the

answer to your question.

>  

> Melly

>

[Guest guest]

My reply that was first posted here in this group turned into an article that was posted on NaturalNews.com yesterday. They also had an article on the flawed study by Byron Richards.Tony--- On Thu, 10/30/08, rb2717 <robert-blau wrote:rb2717 <robert-blau Re:Vitamin E and Selenium doesn't prevent Prostate canceroleander soup Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:19 PM

 

Healthynews. com today had an article about NCI's new fraudulent attack on vitamin E.

 

oleander soup, melly banagale <tita_mel@.. .> wrote:

>

> Mike V,

>

> Who is financing WebMd? It looks like a front for conventional medicine factories - pharmas. In one of its article below the website you indicated, it said there is no alternative cure for prostate cancer, and that one should go to his MD who will lead him for treatment. Yeah sure ... welllll there goes the answer to your question.

>

> Melly

>

[Guest guest]

Melly:

Excellent information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duke Stone ----- Dallas, Texas

info

--- On Wed, 10/29/08, melly banagale <tita_mel wrote:

melly banagale <tita_mel Re:Vitamin E and Selenium doesn't prevent Prostate canceroleander soup Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12:41 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a brand new article from orthomoleculear. ..about vitamin e preventing lung cancer.

 

Melly

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 29, 2008

Vitamin E Prevents Lung CancerNews Media Virtually Silent on Positive Vitamin Research

(OMNS, October 29, 2008) Researchers at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center have found that taking more vitamin E substantially reduces lung cancer. Their new study shows that people consuming the highest amounts of vitamin E had the greatest benefit. When they compared persons taking the most vitamin E with those taking the least, there was a 61% reduction in lung cancer risk. (1)

Lung cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer on earth; over 1.3 million people are diagnosed with it each year. With medical treatment, survival rates are "consistently poor," says Cancer Research UK. Lung cancer kills nearly 1.2 million per year. It accounts for 12% of all cancers, but results in 18% of all cancer deaths. (2) Anything that can reduce these dismal facts is important news . . .very important. Yet the mainstream media have virtually ignored vitamin E's important role as a cancer fighter.

A sixty-one percent reduction in lung cancer with vitamin E? How could the news media have missed this one?

The news media probably did not miss it: they simply did not report it. They are biased. You can see for yourself what bias there is. Try a "Google" search for any of the major newspapers or broadcast media, using the name of the news organization along with the phrase "vitamin E lung cancer." When you do, you will find that it will quickly bring up previous items alleging that vitamin E might (somehow) increase cancer risk. You will find little or nothing at all on how vitamin E prevents cancer. Indeed, the bias is so strong that even a qualified search for "increased vitamin E reduces lung cancer" will still, and preferentially, bring up media coverage alleging that vitamin E is harmful. Negative reporting sells newspapers and pulls in viewing audiences. The old editors' adage must still be true: "If it bleeds, it leads."

Here's more positive vitamin E cancer research that the media "missed." A study in 2002 looked at patients with colon cancer "who received a daily dose of 750 mg of vitamin E during a period of 2 weeks. Short-term supplementation with high doses of dietary vitamin E leads to increased CD4:CD8 ratios and to enhanced capacity by their T cells to produce the T helper 1 cytokines interleukin 2 and IFN-gamma. In 10 of 12 patients, an increase of 10% or more (average, 22%) in the number of T cells producing interleukin 2 was seen after 2 weeks of vitamin E supplementation. " The authors concluded that "dietary vitamin E may be used to improve the immune functions in patients with advanced cancer." That improvement was achieved in a mere two weeks merits special attention. (3)

Was it on the news? Did you hear about how high doses of vitamin E help cancer patients' immune systems in only two weeks? Why not? Might the answer possibly have anything to do with money? One cannot watch television or read a magazine or newspaper without it being obvious that drug company cash is one of the media's very largest sources of revenue. Given where their advertising income comes from, it is hardly a big surprise that media reporting on vitamins is biased. Well-publicized vitamin scares feed the pharmaceutical industry. Successful reports of safe, inexpensive vitamin therapy do not.

One commentator has observed that pharmaceutical and other "corporations marshal huge public relations efforts on behalf of their agendas. In the United States the 170,000 public relations employees whose job it is to manipulate news, public opinion and public policy in the interests of their clients outnumber news reporters by 40,000." (4) Another commentator wrote that "Janine Jackson of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a news media watchdog group, told the American Free Press that 60 percent of journalists surveyed by FAIR admitted that advertisers 'try to change stories (and) there is an overwhelming influence of corporations and advertisers' on broadcast and print news reporting." (5)

Drug companies don't have any drug that can reduce lung cancer risk by 61%. If they did, you would have heard all about it in their advertisements. And it would be all over the news. Positive drug studies get the headlines. Positive vitamin studies rarely do. This is an enormous public health problem with enormous consequences. A cynic might say that press and television coverage of a vitamin study tends to be inversely proportionate to the study's clinical usefulness. Truly valuable research does not scare people; it helps people get well. It would be difficult to identify anything more helpful than actively reporting the story when a vitamin is shown to reduce lung cancer by 61%.

The good news about how important high quantities of vitamin E are in combating cancer is not arising out of nowhere. A US National Library of Medicine MEDLINE search will bring up over 3,000 studies on the subject, some dating back to 1946. By the early 1950s, research clearly supported the use of vitamin E against cancer. (6) Before 1960, vitamin E was shown to reduce the side effects of radiation cancer treatment. (7) In reviewing vitamin E research, one notes that the high-dose studies got the best results.

Vitamin E is not the sure cure for cancer. It is not certain prevention, either. Stopping cigarette smoking is essential. But vitamin E is part of the solution, and we need more of it. An independent panel of physicians and researchers (8) has recently called for increasing the daily recommended intake for vitamin E to 200 IU. The present US RDA/DRI is a mere 15-20 IU/day.

It is time to raise it. A lot.

References:

(1) Mahabir S, Schendel K, Dong YQ, Barrera SL, Spitz MR, Forman MR. Dietary alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherols in lung cancer risk. Int J Cancer. 2008 Sep 1;123(5):1173- 80. (2) http://info. cancerresearchuk .org/cancerstats /geographic/ world/commoncanc ers/ (3) Malmberg KJ, Lenkei R, Petersson M et al. A short-term dietary supplementation of high doses of vitamin E increases T helper 1 cytokine production in patients with advanced colorectal cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2002 Jun; 8(6):1772-8. (4) Robbins R. Global problems and the culture of

capitalism. Allyn and Bacon, 1999, p 138. http://www.globalis sues.org/ article/160/ media-and- advertising (5) Prestage J. Mainstream journalism: Shredding the First Amendment. Online Journal, November 7, 2002. http://www.globalis sues.org/ article/160/ media-and- advertising (6) Telford IR. The influence of alpha tocopherol on lung tumors in strain A mice. Tex Rep Biol Med. 1955;13(3):515- 21. Swick RW, Baumann CA, Miller WL Jr,

Rumsfeld HW Jr. Tocopherol in tumor tissues and effects of tocopherol on the development of liver tumors. Cancer Res. 1951 Dec;11(12):948- 53. (7) Fischer W. [The protective effect of tocopherol against toxic phenomena connected with the roentgen irradiation of mammary carcinoma.] Munch Med Wochenschr. 1959 Sep 4;101:1487-8. German. Also: Sabatini C, Balli L, Tagliavini R. [Effects of vitamin E and testosterone in comparisons of skin exposed to high doses of roentgen rays administered by semi-contact technic.] Riforma Med. 1955 Apr 30;69(18):Suppl, 1-4. Italian. See also: Graham JB, Graham RM. Enhanced effectiveness of radiotherapy in cancer of the uterine cervix. Surg Forum. 1953;(38th

Congress):332- 8. (8) Doctors say, Raise the RDAs now. Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 30, 2007. http://orthomolecul ar.org/resources /omns/v03n10. shtml

For more information: Many full-text nutrition and vitamin therapy research papers are posted for free access at http://orthomolecul ar.org/library/ jom .

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomol ecular.org

The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.

Editorial Review Board:

Damien Downing, M.D. Harold D. Foster, Ph.D. Steve Hickey, Ph.D. Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. James A. Jackson, PhD Bo H. Jonsson, MD, Ph.D Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. Erik Paterson, M.D. Gert E. Shuitemaker, Ph.D.

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D., Editor and contact person. Email: omns@orthomolecular .org To Subscribe at no charge: http://www.orthomol ecular.org/ . html

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[Guest guest]

This is the selenium I take and that I give to my family:

 

http://lifeextensionvitamins.stores..net/noname9.html

 

Here is what they have to say about their product:

 

The newest and best form of selenium for fighting all types of cancer

may be Se-methylselenocysteine, or SeMSC, a naturally occurring

seleno-amino acid that is synthesized by plants such as garlic and

broccoli. Recent studies have confirmed that it is this form of

selenium that is most active in the chemoprevention of breast and

colon cancers, and probably other cancers as well.

 

Unlike selenomethionine, which is incorporated into proteins in place

of methionine, SeSMC is not incorporated into any proteins thereby

being fully available for chemoprevention of cancer and the synthesis

of selenium-containing enzymes such as glutathione peroxidase. Animal

studies also indicate that this form of selenium is as much as 10

times less toxic, than any other known form of selenium. It has been

shown to:

Produce a 33% better reduction of cancerous lesions than selenite.

Induce apoptosis in cancer cells.

Inhibit cancer cell proliferation.

Reduce intra-tumoral microvessel density and angiogenesis.

Reduce intra-tumoral microvessel density and angiogenesis.

Down-regulate VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor. Essential for

angiogenesis.

Of all selenium supplements tested to date, SeSMC is the most

effective anti-carcinogen.

 

1 capsule contains: Selenium (as L-Se-Methylselenocysteine) - 200 mcg

 

Other ingredients: microcrystalline cellulose, gelatin, magnesium

stearate.

 

Dosage and use: Take one to three capsules per day with a meal, or as

recommended by your health professional.

 

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I welcome input on this product.

 

Blessings, Jill~

[Guest guest]

I was actually launched on my whole journey into the wonderful

revelations about how essential minerals and probiotics are for your

health by learning from my goats.

The first year I had goats I knew *nothing* about their mineral

needs. I gave them a mineral supplement, but one designed for both

sheep and goats. Sheep cannot tolerate excess copper, goats need it

desperately.

 

Consequently, my goats barely made it through their first winter with

me. This forced me into intense research. Once I began giving them

the correct minerals at the correct times in the correct amounts, my

goats became bursting with health and I have never had a sick goat

since. I have not had any malpresentations in birth, and many folks

have commented on the appearance, health and great personalities of

my animals.

 

So, the natural conclusion to draw is...if it is good for the

animals, of course it must be good for us...

 

AND IT IS!!!

 

Blessings, Jill~

[Guest guest]

I was interested in this post as I had just recently got my husband on the TRC selenium that Utopia sell on their website. I ordered them with my cs order but the label says L-selenomethonine.

I am hoping to find Brasil nuts locally as the Xmas season starts soon but in the meantime wanted to get my husband on selenium for his CD4s. Am I right in thinking that he should be taking the type of selenium that is best for cancer even though he has a different problem?

Tony posted on this previously too.

From what I understand from the various posts, it looks as if the selenium I got from Utopia is not the best type to be taking. I would appreciate any feedback here.

Thanks

Nelly

[Guest guest]

That is also the selenium, my hubby's doctor gave him to take for his prostate issues.

 

Melly