Dietary Vitamin E Intake Linked with Lung Cancer Risk Reductions
September 1st, 2008
 A comparison of the effects of various forms of dietary vitamin E on lung cancer risk shows a strong independent relationship only for alpha-tocopherol, researchers report.The investigators, headed by Dr. Somdat Mahabir at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, analyzed the associations between four dietary tocopherols (alpha, beta, gamma, and delta) and lung cancer risk, in a study of 1,088 patients with lung cancer and 1,414 healthy control subjects.