Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on May 27, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(11):826; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn040
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Re: Prospective Study of Vitamin D and Cancer Mortality in the United States
Affiliation of author: Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center, San Francisco, CA
Correspondence to: William B. Grant, PhD, Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center, PO Box 641603, San Francisco, CA 94164-1603 (e-mail: wbgrant@infionline.net).
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The study by Freedman et al. (1) found some association of increased vitamin D level with reduced risk of mortality from some cancers, for example, colorectal cancer and breast cancer, but did not find an association with all-cancer mortality rates. The reasons for not finding this expected benefit (2,3
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