"Folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 — all of which are thought to play a role in cancer prevention and are common ingredients in multivitamin supplements — have no significant effect on cancer risk in women.How can it be that 3 vitamins that so many people take have not extincted cancer?
This conclusion comes from the Women's Antioxidant and Folic Acid Cardiovascular Study (WAFACS), a randomized trial of 5442 female health professionals in the United States who had an average age of 62.8 years at baseline and who were observed for an average of 7.3 years.
'Our trial says that this [using the 3 nutritional supplements daily] does not appear to be an effective approach to preventing cancer in women. We know that there are other things that women can do that help prevent cancer, such as stopping smoking and exercising,' said lead author Shumin M. Zhang, MD, ScD, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, in an interview with Medscape Oncology...
Approximately one third of adults in the United States take multivitamin supplements containing folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12, according the authors of the study, which appears in the in the November 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Two other large, randomized trials assessing folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 in relationship to CVD risk have reported similar cancer outcomes but during fewer years, according to the study authors."
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