Wednesday 16 October 2013

Multivitamins may save some breast cancer patients' lives

People suffering from invasive breast cancer may have another tool to add to their arsenal for fighting the disease, according to a newly released study. Researchers found evidence that postmenopausal patients who take multivitamins with minerals on a regular basis have a 30 percent lower rate of death when compared with those who don’t take the supplement. The research was conducted in collaboration with the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Trials and the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Wassertheil-Smoller S, et al. Multivitamin and mineral use and breast cancer mortality in older women with invasive breast cancer in the women's health initiative. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 Oct 9. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24104882

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