Researchers at the University of Ro...

Researchers at the University of Rochester instruct of Medicine in New York have set up that vitamin E slows prostate cancer vegetation in two ways.

First, it stops undivided protein from attaching itself to the male hormone androgen. It also stops production of another protein--prostate-specific androgen (PSA).

Androgen is known to contribute to the pullulation of cancer cells, hut researchers grant that the role of PSA--widely used as a marker indicating the port of prostate cancer in males--isn't certain.

This recent research comes as US health officials course of life a study examining the use of the one and the other vitamin E and selenium, involving 30000 men aged 50 and up in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.

Rochester researchers believe selenium may function differently from vitamin E since, in their subject of attention the mineral did not alter the sum of two units proteins.

Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of death in men in the United States. PSA standards are available from your physician as part of a regular checkup.

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