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Calcium Supplementation and Rectal Mucosal Proliferation: a Randomized Controlled Trial

DOI

61

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0

References

1995

Year

John A. Baron, Tor D. Tosteson, Michael J. Wargovich, Robert S. Sandler, J. Mandel, John H. Bond, Robert W. Haile, R. W. Summers, RU van Stolk, Richard Rothstein,
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Abstract

Calcium supplementation does not decrease rectal mucosal proliferation, as measured by PCNA (and BrdU) immunohistochemistry, in patients with previous large-bowel adenomas. This study, therefore, does not provide evidence for an anticarcinogenic effect of calcium.