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Record W4415357566 · doi:10.3390/antiox14101261

Antioxidant Food Supplementation in Cancer: Lessons from Clinical Trials and Insights from Preclinical Studies

2025· review· en· W4415357566 on OpenAlexaff
Alessandra Pulliero, Barbara Marengo, Oriana Ferrante, Zumama Khalid, Stefania Vernazza, Nicolò Ruzzarin, Cinzia Domenicotti, Alberto Izzotti

Bibliographic record

VenueAntioxidants · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicVitamin C and Antioxidants Research
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClinical trialAntioxidantCancerAdjuvantDietary supplementRandomized controlled trialClinical nutritionCancer treatmentCancer therapy

Abstract

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Food antioxidant supplementation has been widely proposed for cancer prevention and adjuvant therapy due to the pleiotropic role of antioxidants. Herein, particular attention is given to recent clinical trials based on the use of dietary supplements in cancer patients, both as monotherapy and in combination with standard treatments, exploring both their potential benefits and risks. This review focuses on the efficacy of the most important food antioxidants, highlighting how their action may change depending on different factors such as cancer type, dose, timing of administration and antioxidant status of the patient. The results of clinical trials are often contradictory, and the clinical benefit of dietary antioxidants appears more consistent in patients with a baseline antioxidant deficiency. Furthermore, by analyzing the mechanisms underlying the contradictory clinical evidence and critically addressing the issues related to the methodologies used in preclinical models, this review could be helpful in guiding the personalized use of antioxidant supplementation in cancer patients.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.982
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0080.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.488
GPT teacher head0.609
Teacher spread0.121 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2025
Admission routes1
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