Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Vitamin D is a multifunctional hormone with possible antitumor effects. Its exact role in breast carcinogenesis remains largely unknown. We evaluated serum vitamin D levels in female patients with recently identified benign or malignant lesions of the breast and its associations with tumor histology.Subjects-methods: One hundred sixty women with suspicious breast masses that required surgical excision were included in this study. Body composit...