Selenium and Reduced Prostate Cancer Risk

• The Association Between Selenium Levels and Risk of Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of 16,964 Participants (1980-2024).

  • 2025-10-01
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP 26(10)
  • • Mobin Ghaderi
    • Farhad Moradpour
    • Hassan Moaiery
    • Sina Fattahi
    • Hojat Dehghanbanadaki
    • Yousef Moradi

  • PubMed: 41148594
  • DOI: 10.31557/apjcp.2025.26.10.3571

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Prostate Cancer Risk

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  findings indicated that higher selenium levels were associated with an 11% reduced risk of prostate cancer (RR= 0.89; 95% CI: 0.83 - 0.95; P-value= 0.03; I square= 34.46%).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  measured in toenails (no dosing intervention)