No association between circulating concentrations of vitamin D and risk of lung cancer

A new study from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found no association between circulating vitamin D concentrations and lung cancer risk. The study, published in the Annals of Oncology, is the largest observational study to date to investigate whether high vitamin D concentrations may protect against lung cancer. Circulating vitamin D concentrations were measured in pre-diagnostic blood samples from 20 prospective cohorts participating in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium.

Muller DC, Hodge AM, Fanidi A, Albanes D, Mai XM, Shu XO, et al.
No association between circulating concentrations of vitamin D and risk of lung cancer: an analysis in 20 prospective studies in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium (LC3)
Ann Oncol. Published online 2 April 2018;
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/annonc/mdy104

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