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Article: Vitamin D helps colon cancer patients stay alive
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
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Washington, June 19 -- Colon cancer patients having enough vitamin D were less likely to die during a follow-up period than those who lacked the vitamin, a new study has found.
The authors of the study have pointed out that previous research has shown that higher levels of vitamin D reduces the risk of developing colon and rectal cancer by about 50 percent, but the effect on outcomes wasn't known.
Investigators, led by Kimmie Ng and Charles Fuchs of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, analysed data from two long-running epidemiological studies where participants gave blood samples and whose health has been monitored for many ...