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Preventing heart disease and cancer. What randomized, primary-prevention studies show
1Primary Care Unit, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Postgraduate Medicine
|November 24, 1999
Abstract:
Several chemical agents appear to be useful in primary prevention of CAD and cancer. Randomized trials have found that in specific patient subgroups, tamoxifen and raloxifene decreased the occurrence of breast cancer, and lovastatin and aspirin decreased the frequency of CAD events. Secondary analysis of randomized primary-prevention studies has supported the use of vitamin E and selenium in cancer prevention.