'Cancer Screening Has Never Saved Lives' (but Vitamin D supplementation does)

GreenMedInfo Jan 2016

Reporting on several studies including the latest in the British Medical Journal

Why cancer screening has never been shown to “save lives”—and what we can do about it

(Includes audio)

"Discrepancies between disease specific and overall mortality were found in direction or magnitude in seven of 12 randomised trials of cancer screening.8 Despite reductions in disease specific mortality in the majority of studies, overall mortality was unchanged or increased. "

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Whereas Vitamin D extends lives (both specific and all cause mortality)

See also VitaminDWiki

• 6 percent less likely to die by taking just a little vitamin D for 3 plus years – RCT Dec 2013

• Only 1 in 7 cancers are found by screening (but 2 in 7 are prevented by Vitamin D) – Dec 2022

  The Meta-analysis of Mortality and Vitamin D are listed here:

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