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The effect of vitamin and mineral supplementation and diet on the risk of colorectal cancer is an active area of research. In this issue of the Journal, Wactawski-Wende et al.¹ report the results of a Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial to test the hypothesis that postmenopausal women randomly assigned to receive 1000 mg of elemental calcium as calcium carbonate with 400 IU of vitamin D₃ daily would have a lower risk of hip fracture and, secondarily, a lower risk of any type of fracture and colorectal cancer than women receiving placebo. The calcium plus vitamin D study involved 36,282 women . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

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