Doctors combine vitamin D treatment by surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy to combat certain cancers, reports The Globe & mail1.
In the United States, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute is one of the first facilities in North America to use vitamin D in the treatment of breast cancer.According to recent data, low blood levels of vitamin D is associated with the recurrence of this type of cancer and mortality rates higher.
Nearly 80% of patients with breast cancer show blood levels of vitamin D deficiency or inadequate, say the experts at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
Exploratory Stage
The use of vitamin D in cancer treatment is that exploratory stage, they explain, and aims primarily to assess its potential for healing.Moreover, they indicate that supplementation of vitamin D has little risk and enhances bone health of people sick.Blood samples are periodically made to avoid overdoses.
In some cases, patients receive doses approaching 50 000 international units (IU) of vitamin D per week, experts argue.
Last year, the Canadian oncologist Dr. Pamela Goodwin of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, has published a study on the subject.His work showed a higher disease recurrence in women who have low blood levels of vitamin D.Also, their chances of survival are lower, the researcher concludes.
In recent years, numerous studies have associated higher rates of cancer in the Nordic countries with vitamin D.The Canadian Cancer Society now recommends to increase the dose to 1 000 IU daily in fall and winter.
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