date:Oct 19, 2012
A new study has found that daily multivitamin supplementation modestly but significantly reduced the risk of total cancer in a 15,000-strong sample of healthy male physicians.
The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial showed an 8% lower incidence of cancer in older doctors who took a daily multivitamin supplement compared to those who took a placebo.
Multivitamin use had no effect on the rate of prostate cancer, which was the most common cancer in the sample. The scientists found