Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Physicians' Health Study II: Trial of Vitamins in the Chemoprevention of Cancer, CVD, and Eye Disease
Brief Summary: The use of vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene, and/or multivitamins may keep cancer, cardiovascular disease, eye diseases, or cognitive decline from occurring. This randomized clinical trial studied vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene, and/or multivitamins to see how well they work compared with placebos in preventing cancer, cardiovascular disease, eye disease, and cognitive decline in male doctors aged 50 years and older.


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: Exclusion Criteria:

* Men who at the time of randomization are less than 55 or greater than or equal to 75 years of age
* Individuals undergoing treatment for cancer at this time, excluding basal-cell and squamous-cell skin cancer
* Individuals with known prior cancer of the colon, rectum, lung, prostate

  * This includes primary or metastatic PLCO cancers
* Individuals with previous surgical removal of the entire colon, one lung, or the entire prostate
* Individuals who are participating in another cancer screening or cancer primary prevention trial
* Males who have taken Proscar/Propecia/finasteride in the past 6 months

  * NOTE: Individuals who are already enrolled in the trial when their physician prescribes finasteride are not prevented from taking this medication. As a result, these participants will continue to be screened and followed just as those participants who are not on finasteride.
  * NOTE: Men who are taking Tamoxifen are not excluded from any part of the PLCO Screening Trial.
* Individuals who are unwilling or unable to sign the informed consent form
* Males who have had more than one PSA blood test in the past three years
* Individuals who have had a colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or barium enema in the past three years
C: INCLUSION CRITERIA

1. DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

   * Healthy male physicians practicing in the United States
   * Prior participation in the Physicians' Health Study I allowed
2. PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

   * Aged 50 years and over
   * No history of serious illness that would preclude study participation
   * No history of significant adverse events (e.g., rash or allergic reaction) attributed to study agents
3. PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

   * No other concurrent vitamin and/or multivitamin supplementation
   * No concurrent vitamin K-depleting anticoagulants (e.g., warfarin)
D: Postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79.

Answer: C