Vitamin D May Not Reduce Cancer Deaths

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer, Medicine & Health / Cancer

(AP) -- A large new study found no sign that vitamin D lowers the overall risk of dying from cancer, injecting a note of caution to the latest vitamin craze. The exception: People with more vitamin D in their blood did have a significantly lower risk of death from colorectal cancer, supporting earlier findings.

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