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SUBMITTER: Rollison DE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3390020 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rollison Dana E DE Cole Ashley L AL Tung Ko-Hui KH Slattery Martha L ML Baumgartner Kathy B KB Byers Tim T Wolff Roger K RK Giuliano Anna R AR
Breast cancer research and treatment 20111201 2
No studies of dietary vitamin D intake and vitamin D receptor (VDR) have been conducted comparing breast risk among Hispanic women and non-Hispanic white (NHW) women. We investigated the association between vitamin D intake and breast cancer in a population-based case-control study of 1,527 NHW and 791 Hispanic breast cancer cases diagnosed in 1999-2004 in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, and 1,599 NHW and 922 Hispanic age-matched controls. Vitamin D intake was assessed using food freque ...[more]