Serum selenium levels and the risk of progression of laryngeal cancer.
Jakub LubińskiWojciech MarciniakMagdalena MuszynskaEwa JaworowskaMieczyslaw SulikowskiAnna JakubowskaKatarzyna KaczmarekGrzegorz SukiennickiMichal FalcoPiotr BaszukMagdalena MojsiewiczJoanne KotsopoulosPing SunSteven A NarodJan A LubińskiPublished in: PloS one (2018)
This study suggests that a selenium level in excess of 70 μg/L is associated with improved outcome among patients undergoing treatment for laryngeal cancer. Further studies are needed to evaluate if selenium supplementation to achieve this level might improve overall prognosis.