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Survival after diagnosis of colorectal cancer is higher for those with higher serum 25(OH)D levels.
Based on post-diagnosis predicted 25(OH)D levels on mortality among 1017 participants in the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study who were diagnosed with colorectal cancer from 1986 to 2004 with levels in the lowest quintile, participants with predicted 25(OH)D levels in the highest quintile (31.0 ng/mL (range 29.7 ng/mL –34.9 ng/mL) had an adjusted hazard raio of 0.50 (95% confidence interval (CI), 0.26-0.95) for cancer-specific mortality and 0.62 (95% CI, 0.42-0.93) for overall mortality compared to those in the lowest quintile (23.3 ng/mL (range 19.1 ng/mL – 24.8 ng/mL)1. This paper extended the results reported earlier2.
A similar study in Japan with about one-third as many cases as the Ng. et al1 study found a beneficial effect for rectal cancer but not colon cancer3.
A study in the United States found that vitamin D deficiency explained 40% of the disparity in colorectal cancer survival between black and white Americans4.
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