Calcium, Vitamin D Won't Prevent Breast Cancer

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"This trial is disappointing in that it does not demonstrate a significant cancer preventive effect from vitamin D and calcium in postmenopausal women," said Dr. Powel Brown, director of the cancer prevention program at the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

However, Brown was quick to point out that the study didn't look at premenopausal women. "It may be that the benefit of vitamin D in cancer prevention may be restricted to premenopausal women," he said, adding that the study "doesn't diminish the positive effects on bone health from vitamin D and calcium."

Brown, who co-authored an editorial in the same issue of the journal, said that although the current study was very well-done, he doesn't think that researchers "can definitively say that vitamin D isn't helpful for the prevention of breast cancer," and he hopes that more research will be done to see if higher doses might be more helpful, or if treatment was started earlier, if there might be an effect on breast cancer risk.

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To read more about what's already known to prevent breast cancer, visit the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

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