The Nation - News from Nov. 13, 1986

People whose bodies contain high levels of vitamin E and another nutrient found in vegetables are half as likely as those with low amounts of the substances to get lung cancer, a study concluded. The study, conducted at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine, found that people with low levels of vitamin E in their blood were 2 1/2 times more likely than those with high levels to get all types of lung cancer. It also found that people with low levels of beta-carotene, found in carrots and green vegetables, were four times as likely to get squamous-cell carcinoma, a form of lung cancer.