Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes
Patients with colon cancer who used multivitamins during and after being treated with post-surgical chemotherapy did not reduce the risk of the cancer returning or their dying from it, according to researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
In a study of patients with stage III colon cancer - characterised as cancer in the large bowel area with some cancer cells in a few nearby lymph nodes - the researchers found that while multivitamin use had no beneficial effect on patients' outcomes, it also did not have a detrimental effect.
Read the whole article at ecancer.org
Reference
- Ng K, Meyerhardt JA, et al. Multivitamin use is not associated with cancer recurrence or survival in patients with stage III colon cancer: findings from CALGB 89803. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2010. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2010.28.0362
Keywords: multivitamin use, disease-free survival rate, recurrence-free survival rate, overall survival rate, bowel cancer
8. 9. 2010 ecancermedicalscience
