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Posted at: 06/13/2008 09:29:42 AM
By: Robin De Wind
Benefits of vitamin D You can get it from sitting out in the sun or drinking a cold glass of milk. No matter how you get it, vitamin D may be doing you more good than you thought.
Area researchers say this common vitamin may help slow or prevent the growth of cancer cells.
David Rose enjoys keeping his hands busy with something other than cigarettes. He smoked for 40 years. His three pack a day habit and his job working with asbestos in the pit of a steel mill put him at risk.
David says, "I got down in the pit with a broom and swept all this stuff up to the end and shoveled it out with a shovel. I lived in a cloud of asbestos for a year and a half."
David developed lung cancer but because he caught it early doctors were able to remove it.
To keep it from coming back, researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo are trying something new. They're giving patients high doses of vitamin d after noticing how potent it could be in the lab.
Researcher Dr. Alex Adjei says, "In cancer cells grown in the lab as well as in animals that it can actually stop cells from dividing and growing and spreading."
Which is crucial for lung cancer patients. By the time many are diagnosed the disease is already advanced and treatment options may be limited.
But in the future, this common vitamin may offer people new hope.
Researcher Mary Ellen Reid adds, "With an agent that's shown as much activity as vitamin d, that in this population, we have an opportunity to slow the progression to lung cancer and maybe reverse it."
David is signed up for the study in an effort to both keep his lung cancer in check and to help doctors in their efforts to build new defenses against this deadly disease.
This was started after researchers measured vitamin d levels in colon cancer patients. They noticed those who had higher levels of vitamin d did better than those who didn't.
We get vitamin D from the sun, and from foods like milk, fish, and egg yolks.
For more information visit Www.rosewllpark.org or call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724).

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