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如果你或你所爱的人一直服用补充维生素或抗氧化剂，看完科学杂志这些文章,应该三思而后行。

Newest Science article: Vitamin supplements may increase Cancer risk!

If you or your loved one has been taking Vitamin supplements or antioxidants, you should think twice after reading these from Science magazine:

In Science Magazine

·         NEWS & ANALYSIS:BIOMEDICAL research

·         Antioxidants Could Spur Tumors by Acting on Cancer Gene

o    Jocelyn Kaiser

Science 31 January 2014 343:477

o    Summary

Many people take vitamins such as A, E, and C thinking that their antioxidant properties will ward off cancer. But some clinical trials have suggested that such antioxidants, which sop up DNA-damaging molecules called free radicals, have the opposite effect and raise cancer risk in certain people. Now, in a provocative study that raises unsettling questions about the widespread use of vitamin supplements, Swedish researchers have showed that relatively low doses of antioxidants spur the growth of early lung tumors in cancer-prone mice, perhaps by hindering a well-known tumor suppressor gene.

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Antioxidants Accelerate Lung Cancer Progression in Mice

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/221/221ra15