Pancreatic Cancer is an agonizing and all too often fatal form of this scourge.
I am sure that if one of the pharmaceutical companies had developed a vaccine that was even marginally protective against the disease, we would be hearing all about it.
But who has heard about a study which has determined that a simple nutrient can reduce risk by 43%??
Compared to people whose intake of vitamin D was low (i.e. lower than 150 IU per day), there were the following risk reductions:
- 22 percent for those who received 150 to 299 IU per day
- 43 percent for those receiving 300 to 449 IU per day
- 44 percent for those receiving 450 to 599 IU per day
- 41 percent for those receiving 600 or more.
Add to this that Vitamin D has also been found to be protective against breast and prostate cancer, and one would expect the buzz to be as pervasive as the folic acid/birth defect connection.
A strange silence surrounds this promising research, in my opinion.
