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Shining light on the Vitamin D-Cancer Connection IARC Report

Michael F. Holick

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Recently the International Agency for Research on Cancer released a report on vitamin D
and cancer. In response to this report, Dr. Grant wrote a thoughtful and critical review of the
report noting not only many deficiencies in the interpretation of the data that the committee
members used to base their recommendations on but also noted that the ratio of expertise on the
committee favored UVB association with cancer was fourfold higher than expertise and
publication record in the field of vitamin D.

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Michael F. Holick Corresponding author: mfholick@bu.edu

Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Diabetes, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA U.S.A.

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