Colon Cancer

Study results from Medical University of Vienna broaden understanding of colon cancer

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, October 12th, 2009

According to recent research from Vienna, Austria, "Sporadic colorectal cancer is a disease of advancing age and the percentage of the population which reaches an advanced age is strongly, increasing. Multiple factors are responsible for the etiology of this cancer since the colorectal mucosa is directly influenced by, nutrients reaching the colonic lumen and impacting on mucosal cells."

"The vitamin D system appears to be central to several preventative molecular pathway's. Insufficiency of the serum precursor 25-hydroxyvitamin D-3 has been linked by, epidemiology to enhanced colon tumor incidence, most likely because it is a major determinant (if 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin...

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