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Higher Vitamin D Levels Associated with Improved Breast

and Colorectal Cancer Survival

 

 

An online article published in the European Journal of Cancer reports results of two meta-analyses conducted at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, which affirms a protective effect for higher vitamin D levels against the risk of dying from breast cancer and colorectal cancer.

 

Analysis uncovered a 38% average lower risk of dying from any cause and a 42% lower risk of dying from breast cancer when the highest versus lowest categories of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were compared. 

For Colorectal cancer; the risk averaged 29% lower for all-cause mortality and 35% lower for disease-specific death. 

 

 

 

 

 

*Eur J Cancer, 2014 Feb 27.

*LEF, D.Dye, 2014 July