Prostate cancer remains the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among the male population worldwide.
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to prostate cancer and its aggressiveness. Herein, we initiated a retrospective study to evaluate vitamin D status and monitoring in veterans with prostate cancer, and to examine the potential link between vitamin D and survival status and length of survival in this population. We found that veterans who were initially vitamin D deficient were significantly less likely to survive than those who were not initially deficient, and that both initial and follow-up vitamin D deficiency were associated with decreased likelihood of survival after prostate cancer diagnosis. We recommend that vitamin D deficiency be replaced in veterans with prostate cancer.
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Der T, Bailey BA, Youssef D, Manning T, Grant WB, Peiris AN. Are you the author?
Department of Internal Medicine, East Tennessee State University, P.O. Box 70622, Johnson City, TN 37614; Department Family Medicine, East Tennessee State University, P.O. Box 70621, Johnson City, TN 37614; Mountain Home VAMC, Mountain Home, TN 37684; Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center, P.O. Box 641603, San Francisco, CA 94164-1603.
Reference: Mil Med. 2014 Jan;179(1):81-4.
doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-12-00540
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24402990
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