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Can Vitamin D help reduce Breast Cancer?
22/Sep/2006: Recent study presented to the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology suggests that adequate consumption of vitamin D may well help reduce the risk factor of breast cancer from occurring in women.
The University of California, San Diego carried out one of the studies from a pool of 1,760 women and data collated showed that those with the highest amount of vitamin D consumption was correlated with a 50 percent lower risk of breast cancer.
In the second study researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto interviewed 576 women with breast cancer and 1,135 women without the disease, finding those that were exposed to sunlight as teenagers or young women (sunlight helps the skin to produce vitamin D) had a 35-40% reduced chance of getting breast cancer.
Dr. Kala Visvanathan, a breast cancer specialist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said:
"While these studies certainly suggest that getting adequate vitamin D is important, it is not clear that taking extra is beneficial or whether dose should be altered, depending on age."
Study is ongoing.
Copyright Clipp.org
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http://www.breastfit.com/
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