Pages tagged with "Cancer - Childhood"

• CT scans appear to increase risk of Cancer: 5% in adults, 40% in infants
• Cancer patients have low vitamin D (Pediatric in this case)
• Childhood Cancers - Vitamin D can help - many studies
• Childhood Cancer Survivors have worse arteries due to anticancer therapy
• Cancer in children (Leukemia) more likely to recur if 20-30 ng of vitamin D
• Poor prognosis of solid childhood cancers 14.7 X more likely with a poor Vitamin D Receptor
• Newly diagnosed Children with Cancer have low vitamin D, especially if black
• Cancer of the eye in children: most of the risk factors are associated with low vitamin D
• Childhood cancers – give Vitamin D loading dose if low
• Children's Cancer hospital now testing vitamin D frequently and supplementing weekly
• Consensus recommends at least 20 ng of Vitamin D for childhood cancer (not nearly enough)
• Cancer during childhood - many studies
• Childhood Cancer survivors – only 1 in 25 had consumed Vitamin D RDA
• Children with cancer were deficient in Vitamin D, Vitamin C, and Zinc
• Childhood cancer survivors have increased chronic health problems as adults
• Children with Cancer were 3X more likely to be vitamin D deficient
• Vitamin D levels very low for some childhood cancers, then got lower