New study suggests that excessive consumption of vitamin E can increase the risk of lung cancer.

Regular use of Vitamin E pills linked to lung cancer risk.

Regular doses of vitamin E can increase the chance of you getting lung cancer according to the findings, to be published next month.

Dr Christopher Slatore, who led the study of more than 77,000 people, said, 'These supplements are unlikely to reduce the risk of lung cancer and may be detrimental.' His team, from the University of Washington in Seattle, also found no evidence that multi-vitamins or vitamin C reduced the risk of lung cancer.

The study monitored 77,126 men and women between the ages of 50 and 76 for four years. Scientists diagnosed 521 people in the group with the disease, and weren't surprised to find links to smoking, family history, and age. But they were shocked by an unexpected association with vitamin E. They worked out that people's risk of getting lung cancer increased by seven per cent with every extra 100 milligrams of vitamin E taken per day over 10 years.

And they estimate that someone who regularly takes a high 400 milligram dose of the vitamin would be 28% more likely to get cancer. Vitamin E is thought to keep body tissue healthy and is important in the formation of red blood cells.


This content was created on Wed 5 March 2008

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