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'Sunshine vitamin' pills may extend lives of cancer patients

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By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor

Thursday, 12 May 2011

A vitamin pill available for a few pence in any local chemist's shop may have a bigger impact in extending the survival of cancer patients than drugs costing tens of thousands of pounds, says a leading cancer specialist. Professor Angus Dalgeish, consultant medical oncologist at St George's Hospital, Tooting, south-west London, will tell a conference next week that he tests all his cancer patients for the level of Vitamin D and prescribes supplements where they are low.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/sunshine-vitamin-pills-may-extend-lives-of-cancer-patients-2282680.html

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'Sunshine vitamin' pills may extend lives of cancer patients
Thursday, 12 May 2011
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor Thursday, 12 May 2011 A vitamin pill available for a few pence in any local chemist's shop may have a bigger...

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