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Mastectomies for early-stage breast cancer rise after MRI: study (Science/Technology, 16 articles)
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Researchers, following more than 500 women with breast cancer, found that women deficient in vitamin D were 94 percent more likely to have their cancer spread and 73 percent more likely to die from their cancer. Vitamin D deficiencies have long been associated with disease, but new research suggests that low levels of vitamin D in women with breast cancer can lead to more aggressive forms of the disease, and even death. Pamela Goodwin, lead study investigator and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, said that breast cancer experts have only a preliminary understanding of why this vitamin would have such a profound impact on the breast cancer survival rates. The number of women who opted for mastectomy when diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer increased significantly at the same time MRI screening before surgery doubled, a new study finds. Women who are deficient in vitamin D when diagnosed with breast cancer may have a poorer prognosis compared with those having optimal amounts of the sunshine nutrient in their blood, a Canadian study suggests. " Women who had low levels of vitamin D tended to have more aggressive tumours than women who had high levels of vitamin D Goodwin told CBC News Thursday.
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