Reduce Breast Cancer Risk with Vitamin D

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Reduce Breast Cancer Risk with Vitamin D

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Annals of Epidemiology

Volume 19, Issue 7, Pages 468-483 (July 2009) Cedric F. Garland, et al.

Higher serum levels of the main circulating form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), are associated with substantially lower incidence rates of colon, breast, ovarian, renal, pancreatic, aggressive prostate and other cancers.




Dr. Eisenstein's Comments:


October is "Breast Cancer Awareness" month. Recent scientific studies have observed that by raising our Vitamin D levels we can make a 67% dent in breast cancer.

Dr. Garland ( I had the honor of having dinner with him last December) projected in the above study that raising the minimum year-around serum 25(OH)D level to 40 to 60 ng/mL (100-150 nmol/L)

would prevent approximately 58,000 new cases of breast cancer

and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer each year, and three fourths of deaths from these diseases in the United States and Canada, based on observational studies combined with a randomized trial.

This study adds evidence to Dr. Ed Giovannucci 2003 study (Cancer Res 2003;164:333-48)at the Harvard School of Public Health which reported that Vitamin D Could Decrease Overall Cancer Risk by 30%.




Recent scientific studies have found that the level of Vitamin D in most people, while adequate to protect against rickets, is not high enough to lower the probability of pain, cancer, autism, heart disease, osteoporosis and many more medical conditions that may be caused by insufficient amounts of Vitamin D.

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