A recent four-year long study of 78,000 adults between the ages of 50 to 76 that covered supplement-taking habits and lung cancer incidence proved taking vitamin E habitually may increase the risk of lung cancer.
The study shows every increase in vitamin E of 100 milligrams a day associated with a 7 percent rise in lung cancer risk, averaging out to a 28 percent increase in risk over 10 years for someone taking 400 milligrams of vitamin E daily, further proving that vitamin supplements are not always capable with suppressing health problems.
"Vitamins are essential nutrients that act to maintain health and prevent vitamin deficiency," Pamela Mason, spokeswoman for the London-based Health Supplements Information Service, said in a statement. "They were never intended to be used to prevent chronic disease such as cancer. Indeed, it would be asking a lot of a vitamin pill to expect it to prevent cancer."
In addition to the expected association with smoking, family history and other lung cancer risk factors, there was a slight but statistically significant association with vitamin E supplementation and incidence of the disease in 521 of the participants surveyed.
The primary cause of lung cancer is smoking, so the most preventive measure is simply not to smoke, but for the cases of other types of cancer such as breast and colon, vitamin supplements have been linked to reducing the risk.
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