Colon Cancer - perhaps prevent it and many others with $40/year supplements
New Blood Test for Colon Cancer Screening: Shield™ from Guardant Health
Comment on Substack
- "Unfortunately, if it is FDA approved, (as early as July 2024), one can be assured that it was approved because it would have no appreciable impact on the current paradigm for medical treatment - which places industry profits before patient outcomes. I am not convinced..."
Unfortunately, blood test has a 90% false-alarm rate (nothing found by subsequent colonoscopy)
Related in VitaminDWiki
- Colon Cancer protects itself by changing the VDR and CYP3A4 genes
- Colon Cancer 30 percent higher risk if low vitamin D (optimally need ~40 ng)
- Colon cancer both prevented and treated by Vitamin D – meta-analysis
- 16 factors increase the risk of early-onset colorectal cancer, only vitamin D decreases the risk – meta-analysis
- Colorectal cancer still reduced 6 years after taking Berberine - Sept 2025, which activates with Vitamin D Receptor gene
Costs: $5/year for vitamin D (50,000 IU once every 2 weeks), and $30/year for daily activator of VDR - Berberine