A couple of recent reports provide new insights into preventing and treating colon cancer. These studies remind me of the scene in Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper, where he wakes up in the future to find out that all the things he thought were bad for you are really healthy.
The first study was in the Journal of Clinical Oncology which found that people who had higher levels of circulating Vitamin D and later developed colon cancer had a better survival rate than people with lower Vitamin D levels. An accompanying editorial points out that this could be because people who exercise more are outside for longer periods of time – which gives them more sun exposure leading to higher Vitamin D levels – and that more exercise itself might provide a better survival rate. …
