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February 29th, 2008

Vitamin D: The New Aspirin Against Cancer?

Vitamin D has the potential to become the “new aspirin“, the little inexpensive pill that may be able to block the development of some cancers, strengthen bones, prevent multiple sclerosis and alleviate winter depression.
Such were the findings of a new Canadian study:
But it’s not science fiction. The “new aspirin” could be Vitamin D. Just as […]

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August 9th, 2007

Sunlight Against Breast Cancer

While avoiding too much sunshine will reduce one’s risk of skin cancer, it will on the other hand increase one’s risk of breast cancer.
The majority of vitamin D comes from exposure of the skin to sunlight but many women – exposed less in winter and reluctant to bare themselves in summer because of the dangers […]

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January 22nd, 2007

Vitamin D Pill For Prostate Cancer, Under Development

Under clinical stage development by drugmaker Novacea, is a drug based on vitamin D for patients in the advanced stages of prostate cancer along with chemotherapy drugs – Asentar (DN-101).
Drug makers came up with the idea because vitamin D from sunlight improves the prognosis of certain cancers. But taking natural levels of the vitamin has […]

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September 19th, 2006

Vitamin D Has Potential to Prevent Pancreatic Cancer

According to a study led by Halcyon Skinner, Ph.D., of Northwestern University with colleagues from Harvard University, revealed that consumption of Vitamin D tablets cuts the risk of pancreatic cancer by nearly half.
One of the first known studies to use a large-scale epidemiological survey to examine the relationship between Vitamin D and pancreatic cancer, the results […]

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