NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who consume relatively high levels of calcium and dairy products and take vitamin D supplements seem to be protected to some degree against colorectal cancer, researchers have found.
"Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide, and dietary factors are considered to be important in its risk," Dr. Song-Yi Park, of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and colleagues write in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Park's team examined the association between calcium and vitamin D intake and the risk of colorectal cancer in 191,000 subjects between the ages of 45 and 75 years, who completed a food frequency questionnaire between 1993 and 1996.
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