More Evidence That Vitamin D Cuts Cancer Risk

The great vitamin D dilemma--does it do any good?- comes a bit closer to resolution with the release of  research suggesting that vitamin D supplements can reduce cancer risk by 60 percent to 77 percent. ABC News reports on the study, whose results were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and which looked at 1,179 postmenopausal Caucasian women older than the age of 55. The women were randomly assigned a placebo containing no
medication, a dose of calcium equivalent to about five glasses of milk
per day, or both calcium and a high dose of vitamin D. Women who were on both calcium and vitamin D had 60 percent to
77 percent fewer incidences of cancer in four years than those taking
the placebo.