Papers/PMID:30545821
Calcium Intake and Survival after Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2019The record
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Ca(2+) — decreases all-cause mortality
Evidence strength: limited.Findingreplicated ×4“Postdiagnostic supplemental calcium intake was inversely associated with colorectal cancer–specific mortality (HR comparing the highest with the lowest quartile intake, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.42–1.06; P trend = 0.047) and all-cause mortality (HR, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.54–0.94; P trend = 0.008, Table 2).”
Quoted verbatim from Calcium Intake and Survival after Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis.. - Study
- cohort
- Dose
- highest versus lowest quartile of postdiagnostic supplemental calcium intake
- Population
- 1,660 nonmetastatic colorectal cancer patients in the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study; highest versus lowest quartile of postdiagnostic supplemental calcium (calcium supplements plus multivitamins); pooled across both cohorts
Effect 0.71 hazard ratio, 95% CI 0.54 to 0.94
Calcium Intake and Survival after Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis.2019PMID:3054582110.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-2965Industry fundedPermalink