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Breast cancer and vitamin supplements

You might have seen some coverage in the news about a new study suggesting vitamin pills may reduce risk of cancer.

Author: The WCRF team
Published: 19 April 2010

You might have seen some coverage in the news about a new study suggesting vitamin pills may reduce risk of cancer.

We gave a comment about this to the Daily Express. This was that the advice remains the same: don’t use supplements to protect against cancer.

There’s a page on our website if you want to find out about the links between cancer and supplements and the background to our advice.