title: A clinical protocol demonstrating rapid, safe, and effective treatment of vitamin D deficiency: a potential role in oncology alongside conventional treatment.
abstract: Vitamin D status has importance in the prevention and treatment of many malignancies. Patients with breast, colon, and lung malignancies with higher vitamin D status at the onset of treatment have an improved prognosis compared with those patients with a lower vitamin D status. Methods to improve vitamin D status are often unreliable and take time, often months, to be successful. A method that improves and normalizes the vitamin D status safely, quickly (within 1-2 weeks), and reliably is described herein. The use of this method will allow testing of the hypothesis that improving the vitamin D status of patients with various malignancies before treatment is initiated will improve their outcome.
authors.affiliation: Steiner Medical and Therapeutic Center, Phoenixville, PA, USA isc@steinermed.com.
authors.forename: Ira
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cantor
mesh_terms: D002762:Cholecalciferol / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D014807:Vitamin D; D002762:Cholecalciferol; C104450:25-hydroxyvitamin D
keywords: malignancies; treatment of vitamin D deficiency; vitamin D; vitamin D and oncology treatment; vitamin D replacement therapy