Grassroots

NIH Conference On Cancer and Vitamin D

11 Oct 2004
This conference is FREE and it's not too late to register

The upcoming National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health conference on cancer and vitamin D promises to be an interesting match. Two very different groups of scientists will be slugging it out. In one corner will be the scientists who are trying to develop potentially profitable analogues of vitamin D to treat cancer. In the other corner will be vitamin D experts and other scientists who increasingly are saying plain old cheap vitamin D may be just as good (or even better) than the analogues to help fight cancer. READ MORE

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