Does Selenium really cure cancer?

I think it may help *prevent* rather than cure.

NIH study on prostate cancer with selenium:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/facts...

1997 JAMA study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query...

No.

If it did, no one would have cancer.

yea right.

Studies show that selenium supplementation is tied to a dramatic reduction in the number of cancer cases
and to the number of cancer mortalities. One such study was both significant enough and of a high enough quality to be published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association.

There is no cure for cancer yet but selenium has been shown to help.

In the 1990s there was a great deal of heightened interest generated in a comparatively little known trace mineral named Selenium. Holistic Health Professionals have known for some time that selenium plays a part in the antioxidant enzyme Glutathione Peroxidase, (whence its abbreviation, SeGPX) which is arguably the most important factor in resistance to free radical damage at the cellular level. Therefore, low levels of selenium have been implicated in most chronic disease states, to include cancer, premature aging, cataracts, AMD, cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis and more.

It can be. The only way we will know if a study is done. Put a group of people that take selenium and another that doesnt and see what happens.

This is what SELENIUM can cure according to the Materia Medica of Homeopathic Medicine, By Dr.William Boericke MD :-

SELENIUM METALLICUM
The Element Selenium
(SELENIUM)

Selenium is a constant constituent of bones and teeth.

Marked effects on the genito-urinary organs, and often indicated in elderly men, especially for prostatitis and sexual atony. Great debility; worse, heat. Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age. Debility after exhausting diseases.

Mind.--Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Mental labor fatigues. Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.

Head.--Hair falls out. Pain over left eye; worse walking in sun, strong odors and tea. Scalp feels tense. Headache from tea drinking.

Throat.--Incipient tubercular laryngitis. Hawking and raising transparent lumps of mucus every morning. Hoarseness. Cough in morning, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Hoarseness of singers. Much clear, starchy mucus (Stann).

Stomach.--Desire for brandy and other strong drink. Sweetish taste. Hiccough and eructations after smoking. After eating, pulsation all over, especially abdomen.

Abdomen.--Chronic liver affections; liver painful, enlarged, with fine rash over liver region. Stool constipated, hard and accumulated in rectum.

Urinary.--Sensation in the tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out. Involuntary dribbling.

Male.--Dribbling of semen during sleep. Dribbling of prostatic fluid. Irritability after coitus. Loss of sexual power, with lascivious fancies. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen thin, odorless. Sexual neurasthenia. On attempting coition, penis relaxes. Hydrocele.

Skin.--Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching, Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers. Hair falls out from brows, beard, and genitals. Itching about finger-joints and between fingers; in palms. Vesicular eruption between fingers (Rhus; Anac). Seborrh艙a oleosa; comedones with an oily surface of the skin; alopecia. Acne.

Extremities.--Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning. Tearing pain in hands, at night.

Sleep.--Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen. Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.

Modalities.--Worse, after sleep, in hot weather, from Cinchona, draught of air, coition.

Relationship.--Incompatible: China; Wine.

Compare: Agnus; Calad; Sulphur; Tellur; Phosph acid.

Antidotes: Ign; Puls.

Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency. Colloidal Selenium injection for inoperable cancer. Pain, sleeplessness, ulceration and discharge are markedly diminished.
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If you have symptoms similar to the ones given above it will cure otherwise no. I hope the provided information is of help to you.
Take Care and God Bless you !

According to some information I've read recently, selenium would be *one* of the agents necessary to promote the synthesis of the endogenous body detoxicant glutathion. Glutathion is one of the ways the body gets rid of environmental or body toxins, and it is reasonnable to think that they can help prevent cancer and help the body to deal with the toxicity of chemotherapy. I'm still looking for reliable info on this subject, concerning other agents such as NAC (N-acetyl-cystein) and bioactive milk protein.
But one has to be VERY careful with the use of metals in food supplements because they can be extremely toxic in overdose. All of the cases of poisonning in kids from vitamin pills are caused by iron. An overdose of iron will destroy the liver, and an overdose of selenium is likely to cause severe problems.