Calcium, Vitamin D, and Prevention of Colon Cancer

• Author(s): Martin Lipkin,
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Pages: 441
• ISBN_10: 1351087282
  ISBN_13: 9781351087285
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Nutrition , Technology & Engineering / Food Science / General ,

Description:... These proceedings were published as a result of a workshop sponsored by the Chemoprevention Branch of the National Cancer Institute. The workshop covered a range of topics including calcium and vitamin D in human nutrition; epidemiologic relationships betweencalcium, vitamin D, and colon cancer; the biology of calium and vitamin D at the tissue and cellular level; and enimal and human studies investigating the potential for prevention of colon cancer with calcium and vitamin D.