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- Most cancers reduce vitamin D levels
- Most cancer treatments (chemo, radiation) further lower Vitamin D
- Higher levels of vitamin D minimize many side-effects of cancer therapy
- High levels of vitamin D augment many chemotherapies
- High levels of vitamin D augment cancer immunotherapies
- High levels of vitamin D can kill some cancer cells 1,720 items 12/2023
- Some cancers deactivate the vitamin D receptor
Example Vitamin D Life Studies
- Cancer and Vitamin D - many studies
- Easiest way to treat cancer – take Vitamin D – Nov 2022
- Even after a Cancer diagnosis Vitamin D improves survival – meta-analysis Aug 2022
- Vitamin D is synergistic with many Cancer therapies (radiation in this case) – Aug 2021
- Vitamin D prevents and treats cancer in many ways – May 2021
- Cancer patients need more vitamin D, even those who are supplementing – observational study June 2021
- Metastatic Cancer probably reduced by vitamin D - many studies
- Colorectal Cancer treatment aided by omega-3 plus weekly Vitamin D – RCT Sept 2019
- Radiation therapy, used to treat some cancers, causes less damage if use Vitamin D (or Melatonin) – Aug 2022
- Vitamin D is synergistic with many Cancer therapies (radiation in this case) – Aug 2021
- Vitamin D prevents and treats cancer in many ways – May 2021
- Palliative care is helped by Vitamin D - many studies
- 4X less of one chemo needed after vitamin D receptor activation - June 2020
Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer survivors with high vitamin D were 3.3 X less likely to have metastases – May 2023
- Breast Cancer survival: 44% with just 10,000 IU of vitamin D per week, 33% with placebo – RCT Dec 2023
- Breast cancer recurred twice as often if have less than 20 ng of vitamin D – Dec 2018
- Breast Cancer chemotherapy 2.7 X more likely to be successful if not vitamin D deficient – Dec 2017
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- All of the After Cancer Diagnosis
- After Cancer Diagnosis and Intervention
8 studies - 32+ Cancer - after diagnosis pages contain CHEMO in the title
- 40% less Cancer recurrence after Breast Cancer surgery if NO radiation treatment - Dec 2023
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- Lots of Vitamin D needed weekly during Breast Cancer Treatment (mean 20,000 IU up to 140,000 IU) – March 2024
- Following Digestive Cancer 2,000 IU of Vitamin D were given. Those whose Omega-3 levels rose had fewer Cancer problems – RCT March 2024
- Vitamin D is Dr. Marik's top repurposed drug for Cancer treatment – Aug 2023
- Opioid and alcohol use disorders increase by 10% after some Cancers (Vit D can help)- Jan 2024
- Better survival of many cancers if higher level of vitamin D - June 2020
- Cancer Immunotherapy is enhanced by a Vitamin D loading dose - Aug 2023
- Diagnosed with Cancer - consider vitamin D - 2021
- Breast Cancer survival: 44% with just 10,000 IU of vitamin D per week, 33% with placebo – RCT Dec 2023
- Vitamin D restricts new capillary growth (angiogenesis) in fat and cancers
- Radiation therapy, used to treat some cancers, causes less damage if use Vitamin D (or Melatonin) – Aug 2022
- Childhood Cancer Survivors have worse arteries due to anticancer therapy – May 2023
- Breast Cancer survivors with high vitamin D were 3.3 X less likely to have metastases – May 2023
- Less radiation-induced intestinal injury if activate the Vitamin D receptor (mice) – Dec 2022
- Easiest way to treat cancer – take Vitamin D – Nov 2022
- Breast Cancers with the lowest Vitamin D levels were more likely to metastasize – Sept 2022
- Even after a Cancer diagnosis Vitamin D improves survival – meta-analysis Aug 2022
- Poor chemotherapy results if low vitamin D (leukemia in this case) – May 2022
- 4.1 X higher risk of Lymph node metastasis if low vitamin D (Thyroid Cancer) – Dec 2021
- Vitamin D is synergistic with many Cancer therapies (radiation in this case) – Aug 2021
- Palliative care is helped by Vitamin D - many studies
- Cancer patients need more vitamin D, even those who are supplementing – observational study June 2021
- Radiation therapy for cancer should be helped by Vitamin D – April 2021
- Vitamin D prevents and treats cancer in many ways – May 2021
- Deaths after Cancer Surgery higher in blacks (probably low vitamin D) – Dec 2020
- Cancer patients in ICU with low vitamin D were 3.4 X more likely to die within a year – Dec 2020
- Trial: Can 50,000 IU of Vitamin D weekly help with Breast Cancer Chemotherapy - Early 2021
- 4X less of one chemo needed after vitamin D receptor activation - June 2020
- Breast cancer chemo made more women vitamin D insufficient, even 6 months later– 2019
- Vitamin D, Gut Microbiota, and Chemo-radiation interactions – Dec 2019
- Chemotherapy hair loss – prevented or treated by Vitamin D, US patent application – Nov 2019
- Relapses of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) – 1 in 5 are due to genes mutated by chemotherapy – Nov 2019
- Childhood Cancer survivors – only 1 in 25 had consumed Vitamin D RDA – Oct 2019
- Improved long-term chemo survival if good Vitamin D (1.8 X better - Hodgkin Lymphoma) – Oct 2019
- Breast Cancer chemo reduces Bone Mineral Density, injecting Vitamin D increases it – Sept 2019
- Colorectal Cancer treatment aided by omega-3 plus weekly Vitamin D – RCT Sept 2019
- Vitamin D nanoemulsion etc. for fortification, pills, injections, topical and cancer – July 2019
- Alemtuzumab treatment of autoimmune diseases has many side effects, Vitamin D should prevent most of them – June 2019
- Vitamin D fights treatment-resistant cancers (petrie dish) – June 2019
- Omega-3 reduced by 4X the interruption of Cervical Cancer chemotherapy due to toxicity – RCT June 2019
- Omega-3 reduces side effects of Cancer treatments – April 2019
- Good Vitamin D receptor reduced bladder cancer and cisplatin deaths – April 2019
- Digestive tract cancer death rates reduced a bit by a bit of vitamin D – RCT April 2019
- Chemo only as needed for Prostate Cancer is working well - March 2019
- Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer lowers Vitamin D levels – Oct 2018
- Improve your health BEFORE surgery (prehabilitation) helps your recovery - 2018
- Vitamin D prevents breast cancer, reduces BC mortality, and reduces BC chemotherapy problems – Sept 2018
- Chemotherapy drugs often reduce Vitamin D levels, restoring levels helps– Aug 2018
- Pancreatic Cancer – live a year longer if have high vitamin D and good Vitamin D Receptor – Aug 2018
- Chemotheraphy not work as well with low Vitamin D (colon cancer this time) – Aug 2018
- Breast cancer recurred twice as often if have less than 20 ng of vitamin D – Dec 2018
- Recurrence of head and neck cancer reduced by half in those getting more vitamin D (in food) – May 2018
- Hospice and palliative care – Vitamin D, CBD, and Medical Cannabis
- Cisplatin chemotherapy dose size might be reduced by Omega-3 – Jan 2018
- Following breast cancer 100K IU Vitamin D doses twice a month helped a lot – RCT July 2016
- Cancer diagnosis increased cardiovascular death 5 X in the next week – 2012
- Breast Cancer chemotherapy 2.7 X more likely to be successful if not vitamin D deficient – Dec 2017
- Cancer treatment helped by Vitamin D, C, and E – Book 2017
- Sore mouth due to cancer therapy (oral mucositis) substantially reduced by daily 1,000 IU of vitamin D – June 2017
- Breast Cancer trial using 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly cancelled (no funding)
- Palliative cancer benefit of 4,000 IU of Vitamin D – less opioids, infection, and CRP – Aug 2017
- Chemotherapy might be augmented with Vitamin D – Jan 2017
- Less radiation therapy needed if have more vitamin D (lung cancer in lab) – March 2017
- Reduced palliative cancer pain after Vitamin D supplementation – April 2016
- Hypothesis – Chemotherapy can be aided by Vitamin D – March 2016
- Increased Breast Cancer metastasis if low vitamin D or poor VDR – Feb 2016
- Cancer treatment needs Vitamin D, Selenium, and other micronutrients – March 2016
- Chemo drug (Nitrogen Mustard in this study) side effects minimized by vitamin D (mice) – March 2015
- Breast Cancer Chemotherapy dropped Vitamin D levels by 6 nanograms – Nov 2015
- Less fatigue if more vitamin D (90 percent of palliative cancer were deficient) – Aug 2015
- 3X less pelvic inflammation from cancer radiation if high level of vitamin D – Feb 2015
- Breast cancer chemotherapy benefits from highest vitamin D levels – June 2014
- Cancer patients at high risk of vitamin D deficiency were not tested as often (paradoxically) – July 2014
- 20,000 IU weekly did not get 43 percent of Scottish Cancer patients to a level of 30 ng of vitamin D – April 2014
- Hypothesis: Chemo brain and other cognitive impairements are associated with low vitamin D
- Chemotherapy (cisplatin) and vitamin D synergistically stop stomach cancer – Feb 2014
- Chemo reduced leukemia patients vitamin D levels – Jan 2013
- Vitamin D improves Cancer survival – Nov 2013
- Colorectal cancer radiation reduced 2X by calcitriol (Vitamin D) with some genes – Aug 2013
- Cancer Chemotherapy and vitamin D – Review March 2013
- Cancer with bisphosphonates was not helped by 200 IU of vitamin D – Oct 2012
- Cancer - After diagnosis
- Breast Cancer medicine pain reduced with 4300 IU vitamin D – RCT June 2012
- Vitamin D levels dropped 3 ng during cancer chemotherapy – May 2012
- 2000 IU of vitamin D reduced fatigue of advanced cancer – RCT May 2012
- 85 percent less risk of death from Breast Cancer when vitamin D levels higher than 30 ng – May 2012
- Vitamin D after breast cancer diagnosis - May 2012
- If vitamin D levels were not changed, toxicity to chemotherapy did not vary with levels – May 2012
- Breast Cancer Chemotherapy initially decreases vitamin D levels – May 2012
- Aromatase inhibitor chemotherapy after breast cancer not associated with vitamin D levels – Dec 2011
- Cancer patients 64% less likely to die if have high level of vitamin D – Dec 2011
- Children surviving blood cancer and vitamin D levels – Nov 2011
- Vitamin D2 patent granted to prevent hair loss during chemotherapy – 2002
- Vitamin D reduces hair loss - many studies
- Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat various cancers – Mar 2011
- Active form of vitamin D appears to help prevent and treat some cancers – Feb 2011
- Vitamin D is an especially important micronutrient in oncology – Oct 2010
- How I Treat Vitamin D Deficiency - for Cancer Mar 2010
- Vitamin D Insufficiency and Prognosis in Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
- Is vitamin D the only supplement which consistently helps cancer survivors – Aug 2010
- Vitamin D and breast cancer radiation
- Vitamin D3 sensitizes breast cancer to radiation treatment - increasing cancer cell death – May 2010
- Chemotherapy might be amplified by vitamin D
- Metastatic Cancer probably reduced by vitamin D - many studies
- Vitamin D Shows Potential in Natural Chemotherapy April 2010
After Cancer Diagnosis and Intervention
8 studies - Breast Cancer survival: 44% with just 10,000 IU of vitamin D per week, 33% with placebo – RCT Dec 2023
- Breast Cancer chemo reduces Bone Mineral Density, injecting Vitamin D increases it – Sept 2019
- Colorectal Cancer treatment aided by omega-3 plus weekly Vitamin D – RCT Sept 2019
- Digestive tract cancer death rates reduced a bit by a bit of vitamin D – RCT April 2019
- Breast Cancer trial using 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly cancelled (no funding)
- Palliative cancer benefit of 4,000 IU of Vitamin D – less opioids, infection, and CRP – Aug 2017
- Breast Cancer medicine pain reduced with 4300 IU vitamin D – RCT June 2012
- Active form of vitamin D appears to help prevent and treat some cancers – Feb 2011
32+ Cancer - after diagnosis pages contain CHEMO in the title
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Items found: 3240% less Cancer recurrence after Breast Cancer surgery if NO radiation treatment - Dec 2023
Compelling case for skipping RT in some early breast cancers - MD Edge
- Recurrence rate: 1% in 5 years if no radiation therapy vs 1.7% if radiation therapy
- "Omitting radiation therapy led to better health-related quality of life and functional and cosmetic outcomes, and the women viewed not having radiation as highly acceptable and appropriate treatment, not undertreatment."
- Based on a study in Lancet: Postoperative radiotherapy omission in selected patients with early breast cancer following preoperative breast MRI (PROSPECT): primary results of a prospective two-arm study, which is behind a paywall
- Vitamin D Life suspects that the radiation wounds the immune system, making it less likely to be able to fight off future cancers. Wonder if radiation decreases vitamin D levels on a long-term basis?
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