Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) for Prostate Cancer
Brief Summary: RATIONALE: Chemoprevention therapy is the use of certain drugs to try to prevent the development of cancer. It is not yet known which regimen of selenium and/or vitamin E may be more effective in preventing prostate cancer.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to determine the effectiveness of selenium and vitamin E, either alone or together, in preventing prostate cancer.


Options:
A: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Healthy male volunteers
* Digital rectal examination (DRE) deemed not suspicious for prostate cancer performed within 364 days prior to study entry

  * Participants with a suspicious DRE are ineligible even if a recent or subsequent biopsy is negative for cancer
* Total prostate-specific antigen ≤ 4.0 ng/mL within 364 days prior to study entry
* No prior prostate cancer or high-grade (grade 2-3) prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

* See Disease Characteristics

Performance status:

* Not specified

Life expectancy:

* Not specified

Hematopoietic:

* Not specified

Hepatic:

* Not specified

Renal:

* Not specified

Cardiovascular:

* Systolic blood pressure \< 160 mm Hg
* Diastolic blood pressure \< 90 mm Hg
* No history of hemorrhagic stroke

Other:

* No malignancies within the past 5 years except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer
* No uncontrolled medical illness
* No retinitis pigmentosa

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

* Not specified

Chemotherapy

* Not specified

Endocrine therapy

* Not specified

Radiotherapy

* Not specified

Surgery

* Not specified

Other

* At least 7 years since prior randomization to SWOG-9217, with completion of end-of-study biopsy requirement
* No additional concurrent selenium or vitamin E (contained in individual supplements, antioxidant mix, or multivitamin)
* Concurrent multivitamins allowed (supplied on study)
* No concurrent anticoagulation therapy (e.g., warfarin)
* Concurrent prophylactic aspirin (average daily dose no greater than 175 mg/day) allowed

  * Concurrent daily aspirin dose ≤ 81 mg for participants receiving clopidogrel
* Concurrent anti-hypertension medication allowed
* No concurrent participation in another study involving a medical, surgical, nutritional, or life-style intervention (unless no longer receiving the intervention and are in the follow-up phase only)
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Men aged between 18 and 35 years, nonsmokers
* Body mass index between 15th and 85th percentile
* Normal findings in the medical history and physical examination unless the investigator considers an abnormality to be clinically irrelevant
* Normal laboratory values unless the investigator considers an abnormality to be clinically irrelevant
* Normal ophthalmic findings, ametropia \< 3 Dpt

Exclusion Criteria:

* Regular use of medication, abuse of alcoholic beverages, participation in a clinical trial in the 3 weeks preceding the study
* Treatment in the previous 3 weeks with any drug, vitamins and minerals supplements as well
* Symptoms of a clinically relevant illness in the 3 weeks before the first study day
* History of hypersensitivity to the trial drug or to drugs with a similar chemical structure
* History or presence of gastrointestinal, liver or kidney disease, or other conditions known to interfere with, distribution, metabolism or excretion of study drugs
* Blood donation during the previous 3 weeks
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Diabetic patients aged 55 and above

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patient who takes antioxidant treatment will be asked to stop, or can't be included in the study
* Patients who had a CVD incident (MI, Stroke, TIA), Unstable angina pectoris, Uncontrolled HTN, will have to wait a month after stabilization to be included in the study
* Allergy to Vitamin E
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Healthy women
* No previous history of cardiovascular disease or cancer
* No contraindications to aspirin or vitamin E

Answer: A