Off topic: Oncologists paid 350 dollars per patient-month to use less effective and more toxic cancer drugs – Oct 2014

Life Extension Magazine Oct 2014

• Wall Street Journal May 2014 has the $350/ month information
• Oncologists are paid to use the insurance company’s “recommended regimen”
• An oncologist having 100 patients on the “recommended regimen” is paid $420,000 per year
• Oncologists are NOT paid for such things which have been proven to treat cancer such as aspirin and vitamin D
• Not on the list is cimetidine – with a proven 2.7X better 10 year survival outcome for colon cancer.
• If an oncologist is caught prescribing metaformin he could lose his $350/month for the patient (14 references for metaformin)
• US paid $37 billion for cancer drugs in 2013
• 5,800,000 Americans died due to Cancer in the last decade vs < 100 due to terrorism
• Adriamycin is one of the “recommended regimen” drugs which is often no longer used due to excessive toxicity (3 references)

See also VitaminDWiki

• Proof that Vitamin D Works proof includes Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer as of Oct 2014
• Cancer - After diagnosis
• 85 percent less risk of death from Breast Cancer when vitamin D levels higher than 30 ng – May 2012
• Vitamin D improves Cancer survival – Nov 2013
• Cancer Chemotherapy and vitamin D – Review March 2013
• Vitamin D and Immune Function – Review July 2013 immune system is needed to fight cancer
• Overview Cancer and vitamin D has the following summary chart

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

• 25 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 259 items along with related searches
• Breast Cancer treatment – Vitamin D was the most-popular supplement – Jan 2023
• 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 patients 64% less likely to die if have high level of vitamin D – Dec 2011 has the following chart

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See also web

• Cancer Intervention Trials with Vitamin D 197 as of Sept 2014