FRIDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) -- New research appears to dash
hopes that people who consume more vitamin D might be at less
risk of developing several less-common types of cancer.
Researchers found no link between higher blood levels of vitamin
D and lower rates of non-Hodgkin lymphoma or cancers of the
endometrium, esophagus, stomach, kidney, ovary and pancreas.
Vitamin D is obtained by the body through exposure to sunlight,
certain foods such as oily fish, fortified foods and nutritional
supplements. Authors of a new study analyzed blood samples drawn
from more than 12,000 men and women in 10 studies. The previous
studies followed the patients for as long as 33 years, allowing
researchers to determine if they developed cancer. "We did not
see lower cancer risk in persons with high vitamin D blood
concentrations compared to normal concentrations for any of
these cancers," said study co-investigator Dr. Demetrius Albanes
of the U.S. National Cancer Institute in an institute news
release. "And, at the other