Vitamin D linked to colon cancer survival

Colon cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D in their blood are more likely to survive the disease, according to research published this week. Scientists who studied almost 1,600 patients after surgery for colon cancer (also known as bowel or colorectal cancer) found those with the highest levels of vitamin D have half the risk of dying of the disease compared with those with the lowest levels. The study is the first to correlate the long-term survival prospects of colon cancer patients after diagnosis with their total blood levels of vitamin D. Read more here.