Selenium for preventing cancer

BACKGROUND: Selenium is a trace element essential to humans. Higher selenium exposure and selenium supplements have been suggested to protect against several types of cancers. OBJECTIVE: Two research questions were addressed in this review: What is the evidence for: 1. an aetiological relationship b...

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Main Authors: Gabriele Dennert, Marcel Zwahlen, Maree Brinkman, Marco Vinceti, Maurice P. A. Zeegers, Markus Horneber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802012000100013&lng=en&tlng=en