Re: NEJM: followup on vitamin D

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At 07:23 AM 4/14/2011, you wrote:

>Vitamin D and Prevention of Cancer - Ready for Prime Time?

><http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1102022>http://www.nejm.org/doi/full\

/10.1056/NEJMp1102022

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>SNIP..... " the existing evidence fallsshort. "

The above paper does not reference the Feb/2011

Blood paper (Shanafelt et al., 2011 117:

1492-1498), " Vitamin D insufficiency and

prognosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia " . The

5 references that were included in the above paper follow.

Al Janski

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1. Institute of Medicine. Dietary reference

intakes for calcium and vitamin D. Washington,

DC: National Academies Press, 2011.

2. Chung M, Balk EM, Brendel M, et al. Vitamin D

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MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,

2009. (AHRQ publication no. 09-E015.)

3. International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Vitamin D and cancer — a report of the IARC

working group on vitamin D. Lyon, France: World

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4. Byers T. Anticancer vitamins du jour — the

ABCED’s so far. Am J Epidemiol 2010; 172:1-3.

5. Helzlsouer KJ. Overview of the Cohort

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