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Dairy products, calcium and prostate cancer risk

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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 95, Issue 11, Pages 1582-1585

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603475

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calcium; diet; epidemiology; prostate cancer; supplements; vitamin D

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  1. NCI NIH HHS [CA-101358, R03 CA101358] Funding Source: Medline

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In a prospective study of 10011 men with 815 prostate cancer cases, despite plausible biological mechanisms, neither increasing intake levels of dairy products nor calcium from dairy products (P trend; 0.23 and 0.64, respectively), or calcium supplements was associated with prostate cancer risk (relative risk, 1.05; 95% confidence interval, 0.84-1.31).

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