Breast Cancer treatment outcome might be predictable from Vitamin D test results – trial 2024

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

• 22 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 241 items along with related searches
• Breast Cancer again associated with low vitamin D – 15th meta-analysis Sept 2020
• Vitamin D reduced Breast Cancer mortality in 9 out of 9 studies, yet still no consensus – April 2019
• Vitamin D both prevents and treats Breast Cancer – 2019

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Cancer category starts with the following

• Cancer 256 items Overview Cancer and vitamin D
• Cancer and Vitamin D - many studies
• After Cancer Diagnosis 97 items
• Bladder Cancer 25 items
• Breast Cancer 241 items Overview Breast Cancer and Vitamin D
• Colon Cancer 134 items Overview Cancer-Colon and vitamin D
• Leukemia 18 items
• Liver Cancer 16 items
• Lung Cancer 53 items Overview Lung cancer and vitamin D
• Lymphoma Cancer 23 items
• Other Cancer 59 items
• Ovarian Cancer 23 items
• Pancreatic Cancer 54 items
• Prostate Cancer 97 items Overview Prostate Cancer and Vitamin D
• Skin Cancer 116 items Overview Suntan, melanoma and vitamin D
• Easiest way to treat cancer – take Vitamin D – Nov 2022
• 2X increase of 14 cancers in non-seniors in 20 years (low vitamin D) – Sept 2022
• Vitamin D prevents and treats cancer in many ways – May 2021
• Those with recent cancer diagnosis had 7X increased risk of COVID-19 (more if A-A )- Dec 2020
• Deaths from many types of Cancer associated with low vitamin D- review of meta-analyses Sept 2020
• Cancer incidence and mortality is decreased if 40-60 ng of Vitamin D – April 2019
• 8 ways that Cancer might be prevented by Vitamin D - June 2019
• Cancer stem cells and Vitamin D - many studies
• Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk - Why Scientists Accept It but Physicians Do Not - Feb 2019
• Overview of Vitamin D Actions in Cancer – 31 page chapter in a book – 2018
• Vitamin D prevents breast cancer, reduces BC mortality, and reduces BC chemotherapy problems – Sept 2018
• Diagnosed with breast cancer – take vitamin D to cut chance of death by half – July 2018
• 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

• Vitamin D Receptor pages in VitaminDWiki with CANCER in title 80 as of Nov 2022
• Cancer and the Vitamin D Receptor, a primer – Sept 2017
• Vitamin D Receptor and Cancer
• Risk of Cancer increased if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis of 73 studies Jan 2016
• Cancer (general) and VDR 22 articles
• Breast Cancer and VDR 20 articles
• Colon Cancer and VDR 13 articles
• Prostate Cancer and VDR 7 articles
• Skin Cancer and VDR 10 articles
  • Note some Health problems, such as some Cancers, protect themselves
    by actively reducing Receptor activation