Colon cancer preventative
NZPA-Reuter London People with a high concentration of vitamin D have a greatly reduced risk of getting colon cancer, United States medical researchers have reported.
areas that receive the least sunlight. Vitamin D is synthesised in the skin under the influence of sunlight. Blood samples taken in 1974 from 620 volunteers in Washington County, Maryland, were analysed to determine who had the highest concentration of vitamin D.
The findings support earlier research that death rates from colon cancer are highest in
The doctors, reporting
in “The Lancet” journal, found that subjects with the highest concentration of vitamin D had an 80 per cent reduced risk of getting colon cancer.
“Our findings .. ; suggest that vitamin D metabolites, possibly working in conjunction, with calcium, reduce colon cancer risk,” they said.
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