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Article: Vitamin D from sun, diet cuts breast cancer risk.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Skin & Allergy News
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- December 1, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- Women who are exposed to plenty of vitamin D, especially early in life, are less likely to develop breast cancer than are women with a history of less exposure, according to data from two studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Julia Knight, Ph.D., of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and her colleagues conducted a case-control, population-based study of women aged 20-59 years from a Canadian cancer registry and the surrounding community. They identified 971 cases of breast cancer and 1,135 controls and asked the women about lifetime sun exposure and dietary vitamin D.
Analyses adjusted for ...