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Vitamin D pathway gene variants and prostate cancer prognosis.
The Prostate - 15 Sept 2010
Holt Sarah K, Kwon Erika M, Koopmeiners Joseph S, Lin Daniel W, Feng Ziding, Ostrander Elaine A, Peters Ulrike, Stanford Janet L
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BACKGROUND: Observational studies linking vitamin D deficiency with increased prostate cancer (PCa) mortality and the pleiotropic anticancer effects of vitamin D in malignant prostate cell lines have initiated trials examining potential therapeutic benefits of vitamin D metabolites. There have been some successes but efforts have been hindered by risk of inducing hypercalcemia. A limited number of studies have...
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