Selenium and vitamin E: interesting biology and dashed hope.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A functional variant in NKX3.1 associated with prostate cancer risk in the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT).Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2014
   Trial
2. Molecular and Biochemical Analysis of the Estrogenic and Proliferative Properties of Vitamin E Compounds.Frontiers in oncology · 2015
   Article
3. Targeting androgen receptor and JunD interaction for prevention of prostate cancer progression.The Prostate · 2014
   Article
4. Prostate cancer chemoprevention in men of African descent: current state of the art and opportunities for future research.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2013
   Review
5. Selenium metabolism in cancer cells: the combined application of XAS and XFM techniques to the problem of selenium speciation in biological systems.Nutrients · 2013
   Review
6. A survey of the protective effects of some commercially available antioxidant supplements in genetically and chemically induced models of oxidative stress in Drosophila melanogaster.Experimental gerontology · 2012
   Article
7. Antioxidant treatment promotes prostate epithelial proliferation in Nkx3.1 mutant mice.PloS one · 2012
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Selenium and vitamin E: cell type- and intervention-specific tissue effects in prostate cancer.2009

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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