Study casts shadow over ‘sunshine vitamin’ (The Kansas City Star) WASHINGTON | A large new study finds no sign that vitamin D lowers the overall risk of dying from cancer, injecting a note of caution to the latest vitamin craze. [News Source]

Vitamin D may not reduce cancer deaths (AP via Yahoo! News) 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. [News Source]

Vitamin D does not prevent death from cancer (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Contrary to what many people believe, vitamin D may not be a strong anti-cancer agent, the results of a new study suggest. [News Source]

Vitamin D does not prevent death from cancer (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Contrary to what many people believe, vitamin D may not be a strong anti-cancer agent, the results of a new study suggest. [News Source]

Vitamin D makes up ineffective treatment of cancer (Pravda) U.S. new study discovered that vitamin D does not lower the overall risk of dying from cancer, injecting a note of caution to the latest vitamin craze. [News Source]

‘Sunshine Vitamin’ No Cancer Cure-All (ABC News) New research shows vitamin D may not be the cancer cure-all many hoped for. [News Source]

Vitamin D cuts colon cancer death risk: U.S. study (Reuters via Yahoo! News) People with higher vitamin D levels are less likely to die of colorectal cancer, researchers said on Tuesday, but the vitamin does not appear to affect the chances of dying from any other type of cancer. [News Source]

Vitamin D may not lower cancer deaths (AP via Yahoo! News) 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. [News Source]

Vitamin D may not reduce cancer deaths (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) 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. Getting enough of the so-called sunshine vitamin - the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays - ... [News Source]

Vitamin D Won’t Help Prevent Most Cancers (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) TUESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- High blood levels of vitamin D did not lower the overall cancer death rate in a long-term study, researchers report. [News Source]

Cancer crusader tells `secret history’ of war.

Devra Davis spent part of her growing-up years in a Pennsylvania steel town that became famous for a lethal industrial fog that settled over the community and killed 20 people over five days in 1948.

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More women in China getting breast cancer. A growing number of Chinese women are suffering from breast cancer due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increased stress at work, experts have said. [News Source]