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Nature Medicine 7, 1076 (2001)
doi:10.1038/nm1001-1076b

Prostate cancer prevention trial launched

Laura DeFrancesco1

  1. Pasadena

The US National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) have launched the largest prostate cancer prevention trial to date, one of the largest cancer prevention trials ever. The Study of Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) will enroll 32,000 men in 400 locations in the US and Canada to participate in a $120 million, 12-year, randomized placebo-controlled trial.