A Review of the Evidence Supporting the Vitamin D-Cancer Prevention Hypothesis in 2017
Anticancer Research February 2018 vol. 38 no. 2 1121-1136
- Vitamin D and Cancer Mortality – review Jan 2013
- Cancer survival 4 percent more likely with just a little more vitamin D (4 ng) - meta-analysis July 2014
- Vitamin D and Prevention of Cancer — Is it ready for Prime Time – March 2011
- The Anti-cancer Actions of Vitamin D – Jan 2013
- Solar UVB reduces Cancer Risk – Grant, Jan 2013
- Ethical challenge – giving vitamin D to only half of Cancer (etc) patients – Jan 2017
- Cancer risk in older women reduced 32 percent by 2,000 IU of Vitamin D plus Calcium – 4 year RCT Oct 2016
- Obesity linked to 13 cancers, the linkage is probably vitamin D – Aug 2016
- If you were born after 1960 your risk of getting cancer is 1 in 2 if you do not get a lot of vitamin D
- 'Cancer Screening Has Never Saved Lives' (but Vitamin D supplementation does) - Jan 2016
- Vitamin D does not improve cancer survival much – when dose size, etc. is ignored – Oct 2015
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174 items Overview Cancer and vitamin D - After Cancer Diagnosis
60 items - Bladder Cancer
19 items - Breast Cancer
180 items Overview Breast Cancer and Vitamin D - Colon Cancer
85 items Overview Cancer-Colon and vitamin D - Lung Cancer
31 items Overview Lung cancer and vitamin D - Lymphoma Cancer
18 items - Prostate Cancer
78 items Prostate Cancer and Vitamin D studies - Pancreatic Cancer
43 items - Skin Cancer
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WILLIAM B. GRANT⇑
Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Correspondence to: William B. Grant, Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center, PO Box 641603, San Francisco, CA 94164-1603, U.S.A. Tel: +1 4154091980, e-mail: wbgrant at infionline.netThe vitamin D–cancer prevention hypothesis has been evaluated through several types of studies, including geographical ecological studies related to indices of solar ultraviolet-B (UVB) dose (the primary source of vitamin D for most people), observational studies related to UVB exposure or serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations, laboratory studies of mechanisms, and clinical trials. Each approach has strengths and limitations. Ecological studies indirectly measure vitamin D production and incorporate the assumption that vitamin D mediates the effect of UVB exposure. Findings from observational studies with long follow-up times are affected by changing 25(OH)D concentrations over time. Most clinical trials have been poorly designed and conducted, based largely on guidelines for pharmaceutical drugs rather than on nutrients. However, three clinical trials do support the hypothesis. In general, the totality of the evidence, as evaluated using Hill's criteria for causality in a biological system, supports the vitamin D–cancer prevention hypothesis.
Evidence that Vitamin D prevents Cancer – Grant Feb 2018
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