ABSTRACT
These proceedings were published as a result of a workshop sponsored by the Chemoprevention Branch of the National Cancer Institute. The workshop was held July 8–10, 1990, in Vail, Colorado, and was attended by 26 investigators prominent in the study of calcium, vitamin D, and colon cancer. The proceedings include a manuscript submitted by the presenters followed by a brief discussion of the presentation by the participants. The workshop covered a range of topics including calcium and vitamin D in human nutrition; epidemiologic relationships between calcium, vitamin D, and colon cancer; the biology of calcium and vitamin D at the tissue and cellular level; and animal and human studies investigating the potential for prevention of colon cancer with calcium and vitamin D.
