date:Sep 18, 2012
0 ng/mL were associated with reduced prostate cancer risk. Three high quality studies of toenail selenium and prostate cancer risk showed a 71 percent reduction in the risk in men with a toenail selenium concentration between 0.85 and 0.94 ug/g.
Selenium is an antioxidant and has been long suspected to be able to prevent or redcue risk of some cancers.
Prostate cancer is expected in about 230,000 men in 2012 in the U.S. and the disease and its complications kill nearly 40,000 annually in the