Prognostic Value of Vitamin D Levels in Egyptian Females With Breast Cancer

Blood to be sampled after diagnosis and before treatment
Clinical trial expected to be completed Sept 2022
5 year survival results anticipated 2026

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Possible benefits of Vitamin D to Breast Cancer Include:

1. Prevention of Breast Cancer
2. Reduce the need to remove breast (s)
3. Reduce treatment duration
4. Reduce loss of hair from chemotherapy
5. Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence
6. Reduce Breast Cancer Metastasis
7. Increase Breast Cancer Survival

See also VitaminDWiki

• Breast Cancer chemotherapy 2.7 X more likely to be successful if not vitamin D deficient – Dec 2017
• Breast Cancer rate reduced by 40 percent with Omega-3 – meta-analysis June 2013
• Breast Cancer was 4.6 times more likely if have a poor Vitamin D Receptor – Dec 2016
  • Options include: Take more vitamin D, do many of the 7 things which improve the receptor
• Breast Cancer 80 percent less likely if high level of vitamin D – June 2018
• Breast Cancer Awareness month should be changed to PREVENTION – video Aug 2018
• Following breast cancer 100,000 IU Vitamin D doses helped a lot (standard of care 400 IU daily did not) – RCT July 2016
• Perhaps Breast Cancer tumors can be reduced by 7 weeks of 50,000 IU Vitamin D – 2023

Overview Breast Cancer and Vitamin D contains the following summary and sections

• 16+ meta-analyses of Vitamin D and Breast Cancer
    example: 2X reduction of deaths from Breast Cancer if have enough Vitamin D.
• Appears that having lots of Vitamin D will reduce by 3 X the chance of Breast Cancer
     wonder just how much more proof is needed
• Breast Cancer 4X more likely if have poor genes
•     Cancer - Breast category listing has 217 items along with related searches

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Cancer category starts with the following

• Cancer 203 items Overview Cancer and vitamin D
• After Cancer Diagnosis 80 items
• Bladder Cancer 22 items
• Breast Cancer 217 items Overview Breast Cancer and Vitamin D
• Colon Cancer 107 items Overview Cancer-Colon and vitamin D
• Leukemia 15 items
• Liver Cancer 9 items
• Lung Cancer 47 items Overview Lung cancer and vitamin D
• Lymphoma Cancer 21 items
• Other Cancer 53 items
• Ovarian Cancer 18 items
• Pancreatic Cancer 53 items
• Prostate Cancer 88 items Prostate Cancer and Vitamin D studies
• Skin Cancer 105 items Overview Suntans melanoma and vitamin D
• Cancer incidence and mortality is decreased if 40-60 ng of Vitamin D – April 2019
• Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk - Why Scientists Accept It but Physicians Do Not - Feb 2019
• Vitamin D prevents breast cancer, reduces BC mortality, and reduces BC chemotherapy problems – Sept 2018
• Breast Cancer Mortality reduced 60 percent if more than 60 ng of Vitamin D – meta-analysis June 2017
• Diagnosed with breast cancer – take vitamin D to cut chance of death by half – July 2018
• Pancreatic cancer 55 percent less likely if optimal vitamin D (vs low) – Nov 2017
• Melanoma 25 X more likely if low vitamin D – Feb 2018
• Better Cancer survival if higher vitamin D a decade earlier (esp. Melanoma, Kidney, Prostate)– Aug 2018

Cancers get less Vitamin D when there is a poor Vitamin D Receptor

• Cancer and the Vitamin D Receptor, a primer – Sept 2017
• Cancer is leading cause of death - Vitamin D and Receptor activators help
• Risk of Cancer increased if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis of 73 studies Jan 2016
• Cancer (general) 13 articles
• Breast Cancer 17 articles
• Skin Cancer 8 articles
  • Note some Health problems, such as some Cancers, protect themselves by actively reducing Receptor activation