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Chemopreventive antioxidants are usually considered in terms of radical scavenging, but Seo et al. (7) present evidence that selenium up-regulates DNA excision repair via P53. These preventive roles are complemented by other recent studies, indicating a corrective activity of antioxidants: inducing apoptosis selectively in transformed cells.
