Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH

c, assistant professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and lead author of the study titled “Calcium and vitamin D supplementation and increased risk of serrated polyps: results from a randomised clinical trial” published in Gut.

Could Calcium Supplements Lead to Colon Cancer?
Colon Cancer

Could Calcium Supplements Lead to Colon Cancer?

Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH | June 21, 2018

If you’re loading up on calcium to safeguard bone density, know this: Those supplements could be causing precancerous polyps.