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Multivitamins raise prostate cancer risk.(Brief article)

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| May 18, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Haymarket Business Publications Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Regular multivitamin use doubles a man's risk of developing fatal prostate cancer, US research suggests.

The findings come from a prospective study of 295,344 men who were free of cancer at baseline.

Over five years of follow-up, 10,241 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer. Of these, 1,476 had advanced tumours.

Men who took multivitamins more than seven times a week had a 98 per cent higher risk of developing fatal prostate cancer than those who never used the supplements. Excessive use of multivitamins was also associated with a 32 per cent …

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