Vitamin D may lower risk of deathly prostate cancer
It remains unclear exactly why vitamin D would lower men’s risk of dying from prostate cancer if it has no influence at all on the risk of developing the cancer, Shui said. It may be that vitamin D specifically influences the cancer cells’ abilities to progress to later stages of the disease and spread through the body, but not the actual initiation of the cancer, she said.
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