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Article: Breast cancer risk falls as serum vitamin D rises.(Women's Health)
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- Family Practice News
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- July 1, 2008
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SAN DIEGO -- A serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level of 30 ng/mL or higher was associated with at least a 50% lower risk of breast cancer, according to the findings of a meta-analysis of three observational studies.
Together, the findings lend support for annually measuring serum vitamin D levels to better identify women at risk for breast cancer, according to the study's lead author, Dr. Cedric F. Garland, professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
Yet experts disagree on whether there is enough evidence to recommend any intervention that would inevitably result when a patient is found to have low levels of serum ...