A new clinical trial conducted at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine in New Hampshire, and recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicates that "neither calcium nor vitamin D, taken alone or together after precancerous colon polyps were removed significantly reduced the risk of new polyps developing." While study co-author Elizabeth Barry, assistant professor of epidemiology and community family medicine at Dartmouth, states that this particular trial studied low doses of calcium and vitamin D taken over a period of 3-5 years, she does caution against the thought that taking calcium or vitamin D will automatically reduce one's risk of developing colon cancer.
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