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TORONTO- 2007 was a record year for Fabutan’s 6th Annual Ray of Hope campaign. Fundraising efforts during the month of October resulted in over $88,000 being donated to the Vitamin D Society for Breast Cancer research. The Ray of Hope campaign understands the necessity to help fund research initiatives as Breast Cancer affects 1 in 9 Canadian women and their families.… continue reading

Vitamin D deficiency, is it a hidden epidemic? “A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the widespread deficiency of vitamin D among Americans is more harmful than once believed, increasing their risk of fractures, muscle weakness, and even cancer as they age” Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin that performs in the same way as a hormone, it regulates the formation of bone and assists in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus in the intestines.… continue reading

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, is much deadlier when it appears on the scalp or neck than somewhere else on the body, according to a study published on Monday. People with scalp or neck melanomas died at nearly twice the rate of those with melanoma elsewhere on the body, the researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found.… continue reading

In a climate where taking money from the medical device industry is being met with increased rancor and where questions over potential conflicts have been growing at medical journals, a Boston University researcher who wrote a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine is under fire.… continue reading

A connection between vitamin D level and the risk of developing breast cancer has been implicated for a long time, but its clinical relevance had not yet been proven. Sascha Abbas and colleagues from the working group headed by Dr. Jenny Chang-Claude at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), collaborating with researchers of the University Hospitals in Hamburg-Eppendorf, have now obtained clear results: While previous studies had concentrated chiefly on nutritional vitamin D, the researchers have now investigated the complete vitamin D status.… continue reading