Selenium and vitamin E supplementation for cancer prevention.

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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Selenium for preventing cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
   Pooled it
2. Adherence to dietary and lifestyle recommendations and prostate cancer risk in the prostate testing for cancer and treatment (ProtecT) trial.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2014
   Trial
3. Comparative effects of two different forms of selenium on oxidative stress biomarkers in healthy men: a randomized clinical trial.Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2014
   Trial
4. The effect of selenium supplementation in the prevention of DNA damage in white blood cells of hemodialyzed patients: a pilot study.Biological trace element research · 2011
   Trial
5. Optimization of selenoprotein P and other plasma selenium biomarkers for the assessment of the selenium nutritional requirement: a placebo-controlled, double-blind study of selenomethionine supplementation in selenium-deficient Chinese subjects.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2010
   Trial
6. XFM and HERFD-XAS studies of selenium in tissues and whole blood from mice supplemented with potentially therapeutic selenocompounds.Redox report : communications in free radical research · 2026
   Article
7. Prospects for Anti-Tumor Mechanism and Potential Clinical Application Based on Glutathione Peroxidase 4 Mediated Ferroptosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
   Review
8. The Relevance of Plant-Derived Se Compounds to Human Health in the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic Era.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
   Review
9. Selenium Kinetics in Humans Change Following 2 Years of Supplementation With Selenomethionine.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021
   Article
10. Selenoproteins of the Human Prostate: Unusual Properties and Role in Cancer Etiology.Biological trace element research · 2019
    Review
11. Dietary Selenium Supplementation Modulates Growth of Brain Metastatic Tumors and Changes the Expression of Adhesion Molecules in Brain Microvessels.Biological trace element research · 2016
    Article
12. [Prostate cancer prophylaxis by dietary supplements: more than just an illusion?].Der Urologe. Ausg. A · 2014
    Review
13. Increasing dietary selenium elevates reducing capacity and ERK activation associated with accelerated progression of select mesothelioma tumors.The American journal of pathology · 2014
    Article
14. Selenium and selenocysteine: roles in cancer, health, and development.Trends in biochemical sciences · 2014
    Review
15. 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
16. Does a role for selenium in DNA damage repair explain apparent controversies in its use in chemoprevention?Mutagenesis · 2013
    Review
17. Chemopreventive effects of selenium on cancer marker indices and ultrastructural changes during 1,2 dimethylhydrazine-induced colon carcinogenesis in rats.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2013
    Article
18. Selenium as a modulator of membrane stability parameters and surface changes during the initiation phase of 1,2-dimethylhydrazine induced colorectal carcinogenesis.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2012
    Article
19. Determinants of selenium status in healthy adults.Nutrition journal · 2011
    Article
20. Epidemiological and clinical studies of nutrition.Seminars in oncology · 2010
    Review

Corrections and comments

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  Effect of selenium and vitamin E on risk of prostate cancer and other cancers: the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT).2009

Authors and funding

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