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The antioxidant
vitamin E may be used to improve the immune functions in patients
with advanced colorectal cancer, according to Swedish researchers.
Researchers
from the Karolinska Institute reported in Clinical Cancer
Research on 12 patients with colorectal cancer who received
a daily dose of 750 mg of vitamin E for two weeks prior to
intervention with chemo- or radiotherapy.
"In
10 of 12 patients, an increase of 10 percent or more (average,
22 percent) in the number of T cells producing interleukin
2 was seen after 2 weeks of vitamin E supplementation,"
the researchers reported.
"Dietary
vitamin E may be used to improve the immune functions in patients
with advanced cancer, as a supplement to more specific immune
interventions," the researchers concluded.
Source:
Colorectal
Cancer Week of June 16, 2002
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