By Carole Baggerly, Grassroots Health

A truly definitive paper about vitamin D and cancer was released in April. In 2007, I read a paper by Lappe and cried. It was a randomized controlled trial which showed a 77 percent cancer incidence reduction with all cancers in women, with a serum level of approximately 40 ng/ml versus a baseline of 28 ng/ml. I was still recovering, mentally, from my own bout with breast cancer and treatment. This was the answer to how to prevent cancer! There was a way! Unfortunately, it was not the answer. There were many obstacles that we faced with getting acceptance, and, most importantly, action from this study.

In 2012, GrassrootsHealth initiated a Breast Cancer Prevention Project, which now has over 1000 participants. The purpose of this project was to add data to the Lappe study and focus on the information from the serum levels of our cohort.

Our goal was to add our data about women and cancer to the existing data from the randomized trial to accomplish a major aim. GrassrootsHealth has a much larger sample of women with higher serum levels than the Lappe study, and together they  would create a larger overall cohort with a broader range of serum levels.

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