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Boston – According to cancer researchers, blood levels of vitamin D have absolutely no impact on preventing adults from dying of cancer.

The researchers were looking into vitamin D to see if it had any positive impact on preventing the death rate of those suffering with cancer. They stated that adults dying of cancer over a dozen years received no benefit no matter how much vitamin D was in their body.

D. Michal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute studies data of more than 16,800 people aged 17 and up. They also took part in health studies between 1988 and 1994.

He followed the patients through the year 2000 and during those 12 years 536 patients died of cancer.

He stated that the vitamin D levels at the start of the study had no affect on the mortality rate of those with cancer. One interesting thing to note though is that people with high levels of vitamin D at the start of the study were 72% less likely than those with low levels of vitamin D to die of colorectal cancer.

Death rates for other cancers though such as lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc. were all studied and were not linked to vitamin D blood levels in any way in reagrds to their mortality rate.

The study is in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.