Circulating Vitamin D and Risk of Breast and Colorectal Cancer

Community and Public Health RIS, the Diet and Cancer RIS, the Nutritional Epidemiology RIS, and the Vitamins and Minerals RIS.

Saturday, April 26, 2014
8:00 AM–10:00 AM

Chairs

Regina Ziegler, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Stephanie Smith-Warner, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Presentations

  • Circulating vitamin D and risk of breast cancer. Stephanie Smith-Warner, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
  • Circulating vitamin D and risk of colorectal cancer. Marjorie  McCullough, ScD, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA
  • Calibration and standardization of vitamin D Status in an international pooling consortium of 21 cohorts:  From epidemiology to public health guidance.  Regina Ziegler, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
  • Is the link between vitamin D and cancer causal? A review of molecular mechanisms and their implications.  James Fleet, Purdue University, PhD, West Lafayette, IN