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Study Suggests Vitamin D Screening and Appropriate Supplementation Indicated for All Cancer Patients
Date:6/15/2009

ted mean serum 25-hydroxy-vitamin D [25(OH)D] levels to be significantly lower in malnourished oncology patients. However contrary to what they expected, vitamin D deficiency was found to be prevalent in cancer regardless of nutritional status.

This study was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, May 29-June 2, 2009, and was publicly released on ASCO's Web site, www.asco.org, on May 14, 2009.

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