Thyroid Cancer rate has increased 3X in 3 decades, Vitamin D Receptor decreases, Calcium increases

Thyroid Cancer is the Fastest-Growing Cancer in America AARP July 2017

• “According to the American Cancer Society, the chance of being diagnosed with thyroid cancer has tripled over the last three decades , making it the fastest-growing cancer.”

Thyroid Cancer rate has increased (age adjusted, from the web)

Micronutrient status (calcium, zinc, vitamins D and E) in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma: A cross-sectional study] Sept 2017

• “We found that serum calcium remarkably associated with enhanced risk for thyroid cancer (odds ratio [OR], 6.5 ; P = 0.001)”

• PDF, which discusses Vitamin D is behind a $36 paywall

Use of Dietary Vitamin Supplements and Risk of Thyroid Cancer - April 2017

• use of multivitamins (OR = ** , 95 % CI: 0.33, 1.04) and
  • calcium supplementation (OR = 0.45 , 95 % CI: 0.22, 0.93).
  • An increased risk of large papillary thyroid cancers (tumor size > 1 cm) was observed among short-term (< 5 years) users of calcium supplements (OR = 2.24 , 95 % CI: 1.30, 3.88)."
  • Seems that Calcium supplementation is bad for 1 type of Thyroid Cancer Publisher wants $28 for the PDF

Sunshine vitamin and thyroid Sept 2017

• 📄 Some discussion of Thyroid Cancer and Vit D & VDR in PDF – download from Vitamin D Life

Vitamin D and thyroid diseases 2015

• “Important for development of thyroid cancer appeared polymorphisms of genes encoding for vitamin D receptors . . . “

• 📄 Download the PDF from Vitamin D Life

Vitamin D receptor and progesterone receptor protein and gene expression in papillary thyroid carcinomas: associations with histological features June 2017

• 'CONCLUSIONS: We provide evidence for the expression pattern of VDR, PR and CYP24A1 in the progression of PTC."

• Publisher wants $40 for the PDF

VDR mRNA overexpression is associated with worse prognostic factors in papillary thyroid carcinoma April 2017

• 📄 Download the PDF from Vitamin D Life

Thyroid Cancer Epidemic of Overdiagnosis Dec 2015 GreenMedInfo

• "Since 1975, the incidence of thyroid cancer in women has more than tripled from 6.5 to 21.4 per 100,000 women, mostly from papillary cancer."

• "However, the “mortality rate from thyroid cancer was stable between 1975 and 2009 (approximately 0.5 deaths per 100 000).”

  • Provides 5 reasons for over-diagnosis

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