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Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 483687, 22 pages
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Review Article

Vitamin D: Are We Ready to Supplement for Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment?

Katherine D. Crew1,2,3

1Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
2Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
3Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA

Received 8 January 2013; Accepted 29 January 2013

Academic Editors: C.-X. Pan, S. Patel, A. E. Pinto, and T. Yokoe

Copyright © 2013 Katherine D. Crew. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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