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Vitamin E has many health benefits including anti-oxidant properties. Anti-oxidants are suggestive of helping to prevent cells from turning cancerous or having cancerous properties.

Many studies have been conducted on whether or not vitamin E itself helps prevent cancer. These studies have been proven inconclusive. There is no solid proof as of yet whether or not there is a direct link between the two.

According to the American Journal of Medicine, there are some results that indicate that there is some sort of link that vitamin E has a beneficial result when it comes to cancer.

One study in 2003, the ATCB Trial, with smoking men, suggested that these men were less likely to develop prostate cancer, or die from it by taking vitamin E; but did not affect lung cancer rates. However, another study took place in 2005, the HOPE-TOO Trial, with men and women, suggested that there is evidence that vitamin E prevented cancer or cancer related death.

According to the National Cancer Institute, one similar study took place for a period of ten year, where women who participated were closely monitored. In this, almost 40,000 women participated in this double blinded study and results were logged.

Of these women, the results were no different from one group to the other. For Lung Cancer, the instances were 107 cases for the vitamin E group and 98 cases for the placebo group. Colon Cancer results were exactly the same 107 cases for each. Breast Cancer wasn't much different, 616 cases for the Vitamin E group and 614 for the placebo group.

There is no significant difference between either group, which tells researchers that vitamin E has no link to the prevention of cancer.

These studies however, do not suggest that it is not beneficial for other groups of people, as the study was only conducted on women age 45 or older. There is hope that the study will be conducted on a less generalized population to see whether or not Vitamin E might play a role in prevention of certain kinds of cancer, or among certain people.

However, Vitamin E still has a place for overall health and other conditions. But it should not be taken just with the hopes that it will prevent cancer, or cancer related death. There has been nothing to suggest or prove this.

Before anyone decides to start a Vitamin E regimen (or any other), should consult with their physician. It may not be best for everyone.

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