• Failure to lower skin cancer risk with vitamin D

    Updated: 2011-07-22 04:52:08
    Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, in Redwood City, California, evaluated the effects of vitamin D combined with calcium supplementation on melanoma skin cancers. First, the details. 36,282 postmenopausal women enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative calcium/vitamin D study were randomly assigned to a treatment group for about 7 years. 1,000 mg of elemental [...]

  • Death rates from colorectal cancer

    Updated: 2011-07-07 16:00:32
    Improvements in colorectal cancer mortality rates are concentrated in the northern part of the United States, while southern states continue to fall behind, as per a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Ahmedin Jemal, D.V.M., Ph.D., vice president for surveillance research at the American Cancer Society, said the decrease in death rates ranged from about 37 percent in Massachusetts to no reduction in Mississippi........

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