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Cancer Prevention
Two new studies back vitamin D for cancer prevention
February 27th, 2007
Two new vitamin D studies using a sophisticated form of analysis called meta-analysis, in which data from multiple reports is combined, have revealed new prescriptions for possibly preventing up to half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the United States. The work was conducted by a core team of cancer prevention specialists at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and colleagues from both coasts. The breast cancer study, published online in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, pooled dose-response data from two earlier studies - the...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-02-27)
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