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Cancer - Prostate
UV vitamin D 26 vs 29 ng prostate risk for AA - dissertation 2010
Optimizing vitamin D therapy prostate cancer - April 2011.PDF
Prostate Cancer U shaped curve - Lappe May 2011.jpg
VDR lack of evidence of risk of prostate cancer
Review of vit D and prostate Cancer
Vit D trials with prostate cancer theory to therapy
Prostate interventions Schwartz - 2008
Vitamin D not associated with Prostate Cancer - March 2010
meteorological and prostate cancer
Vitamin D Cancer and latitude 2008 PNAS
Vitamin D may block prostate metastatic mechanisms - Grant 2008
Meta-analysis vitamin D and prostate cancer - 2009 PDF
Vitamin D and Prostate - 2008
Multicountry Prostate Cancer
Vitamin D and asymptomatic PSA - 2009
Vitamin D and Prostate - 2008
RCT no assoc 24 ng vitamin d and prostate cancer - 2007
16 percent less Prostate Cancer sometimes for each 10 ng vitamin D increase - meta-analysis Jan 2011
200 to 500 IU vitamin D does not benefit bones nor prostate cancer – July 2012
2X less prostate cancer in A-A with low Calcium is due vitamin D receptor gene – July 2013
59 percent more likely to die of Prostate Cancer if very low on vitamin D – April 2011
600 mg of Calcium and a gene increases probability of Prostate Cancer by 50 pcnt – Nov 2012
7X increase in stage IV Prostate Cancer survival when vitamin D greater than 32 ng – May 2013
8000 IU supplementation to people with various cancers – Nov 2010
Advanced Prostate Cancer 2X more likely if less than 20ng of vitamin D – Oct 2011
Advanced prostate cancer 2X more likely if low vitamin D – Sept 2012
Aggressive Prostate Cancer in blacks with low vitamin D – 7X more likely if added Calcium – Jan 2017
Aggressive Prostate Cancer increased by Calcium but decreased by Vitamin D (genes too) – Nov 2014
Better Cancer survival if higher vitamin D a decade earlier (esp. Melanoma, Kidney, Prostate)– Aug 2018
Breast, Prostate and Colon Cancers are still strongly associated with low Vitamin D – Grant Jan 2020
Can take 40,000 IU of vitamin D daily before prostate cancer surgery – RCT March 2013
Cancer - Prostate
Cancers and Vitamin D Council
Chemo only as needed for Prostate Cancer is working well - March 2019
Daily 377 IU of Vit D did not treat prostate cancer – Cancer Journal Jan 2010
Disease Database - nice links for Prostate Cancer
Epigenetics of prostate cancer and vitamin D – June 2010
High PSA readings with Prostate Cancer 4 times more likely if poor Vitamin D receptor – March 2016
Higher rate of prostate cancer in AA may decrease if take vitamin D – July 2016
Hypothesis: Vitamin D restricts blood to prostate cancer cells – June 2013
Hypothesis: Vitamin K will reduce prostate blood vessel problems – Jan 2015
If parents exposed to pesticides, genes changed. will need more vitamin D to avoid Prostate Cancer – July 2013
Low risk Prostate Cancer decreased with 4,000 IU of vitamin D – July 2012
Low-Grade Prostate Cancer 70 percent less likely to progress if good level of Omega-3 – June 2018
Men with High Omega-3 ratio 3 times less likely to have high grade prostate cancer – July 2019
Meta-analysis found vitamin D association with colon but not prostate nor breast cancer May 2010
Meta-graphs of vitamin D and Cancer – Dec 2011
Molecular Link between Vitamin D and Cancer Prevention – Oct 2013
More likely to develop Prostate Cancer if have high level of vitamin D in Finland – Sept 2011
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(47+)
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(290+)
Overview
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(25+)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(17+)
COVID-19
(150+)
Cystic Fibrosis
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Dental
(77+)
Depression
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Diabetes
(455+)
Overview
Diseases gen.+ misc,
(93+)
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(11+)
Endometriosis
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Epilepsy
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Falls/Fractures
(219+)
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Overview
Fertility and sperm
(109+)
Fibromyalgia
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Overview
Fraility
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Genetics
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CYP27B1
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Vit D Binding
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Vit D Receptor
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Gestational Diabetes
(34+)
Gout
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Gut
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Overview
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Health - general
(92+)
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(135+)
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Multiple Sclerosis
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Myopia
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Obesity
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Osteoarthritis
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Osteoporosis
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Pain - chronic
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Parkinson
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Pneumonia
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Pollution
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Pregnancy
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Psoriasis
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Raynaud's
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Respiratory Tract Infection
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Restless Legs Syndrome
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Rheum. Arth
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Rickets
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Sarcopenia
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(17+)
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(419+)
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(33+)
Spinal Cord
(18+)
Spinal Surgery
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Stroke
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Trauma and surgery
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(15+)
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(18+)
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Vision
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Overview
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Overview
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# of studies as of Nov 25, 2020