Vitamin D found to halve risk of pancreatic cancer

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Roman Bystrianyk - 12 Sep 2006 19:54 GMT

Ian Sample, "Vitamin D found to halve risk of pancreatic cancer",
Guardian, September 12, 2006,
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1870352,00.html

A healthy intake of vitamin D can almost halve the risk of pancreatic
cancer, a study has found. A survey of 46,711 men and 75,427 women
found that taking the recommended daily allowance of vitamin D reduced
the risk of the cancer by 43%.

Except for smoking, no other factors have been linked to pancreatic
cancer. More research is needed to determine if vitamin D from dietary
sources or the sun may be preferable to supplements.

The study, by researchers at Northwestern and Harvard Universities,
appears in the September issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers &
Prevention.

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Matti Narkia - 29 Sep 2006 14:51 GMT

>Ian Sample, "Vitamin D found to halve risk of pancreatic cancer",
>Guardian, September 12, 2006,
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>appears in the September issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers &
>Prevention.

The reference is

Skinner HG, Michaud DS, Giovannucci E, Willett WC, Colditz GA, Fuchs
CS.
Vitamin D intake and the risk for pancreatic cancer in two cohort
studies.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Sep;15(9):1688-95.
PMID: 16985031 [PubMed - in process]
<http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/15/9/1688>

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David R. Throop - 29 Sep 2006 20:42 GMT

Thanks, Roman.

>Except for smoking, no other factors have been linked to pancreatic
>cancer.

Diabetics have a much elevated rate of pancreatic cancer. (2X? can't
lay my hands on the ref.) It isn't clear how much of it is diabetes
leading to the cancer and how much is the pancreatic cancer leading to
diabetes.

And diabetes itself has been linked to low Vit. D levels.

DRT

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