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Article: Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 8, 2007
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To: EDUCATION EDITORS
Contact: N. Kathryn Clark of Creighton University, +1-402-280-
2864, KathrynClark@creighton.edu
OMAHA, Neb., June 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Most Americans and
others are not taking enough vitamin D, a fact that may put them at
significant risk for developing cancer, according to a landmark study
conducted by Creighton University School of Medicine.
The four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy,
postmenopausal women from rural eastern Nebraska.* Participants
taking calcium, as well as a quantity of vitamin D3 nearly three
times the U.S. government's Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) for middle-