VITAMIN D HELPS FIGHT BREAST CANCER SAY UK EXPERTS
October 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
LIGHT tanning in natural sunlight and eating foods rich in vitamin D such as eggs and oily fish may slow breast cancer development according to British research published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology.
It showed that Vitamin D curbs the progression of breast cancer by stopping cancer cells from dividing and also encouraged the death of these cells. Imperial College London researchers measured the levels of vitamin D in blood serum of 279 women with invasive breast cancer.
The results showed on average women with early stage disease had ...
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