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From: Steve on 19 Jun 2008 18:03 "Vitamin D helps colorectal cancer patients: study" http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1826509920080619?feedType=nl& feedName=ushealth1100
From: Steve on 19 Jun 2008 18:16 "Steve" <123(a)123.com> wrote in message > "Vitamin D helps colorectal cancer patients: study" > > http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1826509920080619?feedType=nl& > feedName=ushealth1100 this link might work better: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1826509920080619?feedType=nl& feedName=ushealth1100 One thing I should have added was that vit D (meaning vitamin D3) is fat soluble so vit D must be taken in a capsule containing fat. The brand / form I take is Now's Vitamin D3 softgel capsules (1,000 IU) containing olive oil and corn oil. If you're taking pills that contain vitamin D3, you probably aren't absorbing any vitamin D3 because there's no fat in the pill and I believe it must be taken with fat to be absorbed. Vitamin D3 is a very safe vitamin so probably the more the better (up to a point but my guess is 5,000 IU is perfectly safe - see the video on it that somebody posted the link to here about a month ago). One of the reasons vit D is beneficial for cancer patients I believe is it decreases the proliferation rate of cells with a high-proliferation rate. Of course vit D3 is highly recommended for those without cancer too (1,000 IU daily).
From: Steve on 1 Jul 2008 11:06 "Matti Narkia" wrote > Steve wrote: > > "Steve" <123(a)123.com> wrote in message > >> "Vitamin D helps colorectal cancer patients: study" > >> > >> > > http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1826509920080619?feedType=nl& > >> feedName=ushealth1100 > > > > this link might work better: > > http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1826509920080619?feedType=nl& > > feedName=ushealth1100 > > > > One thing I should have added was that vit D (meaning vitamin D3) is fat > > soluble so vit D must be taken in a capsule containing fat. The brand / form > > I take is Now's Vitamin D3 softgel capsules (1,000 IU) containing olive oil > > and corn oil. If you're taking pills that contain vitamin D3, you probably > > aren't absorbing any vitamin D3 because there's no fat in the pill and I > > believe it must be taken with fat to be absorbed. > > > > Vitamin D3 is a very safe vitamin so probably the more the better (up to a > > point but my guess is 5,000 IU is perfectly safe - see the video on it that > > somebody posted the link to here about a month ago). One of the reasons vit > > D is beneficial for cancer patients I believe is it decreases the > > proliferation rate of cells with a high-proliferation rate. > > > > Of course vit D3 is highly recommended for those without cancer too (1,000 > > IU daily). > > > Thanks for the link, Steve. The reference for the study is > > Kimmie Ng, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Kana Wu, Diane Feskanich, Bruce W. > Hollis, Edward L. Giovannucci, Charles S. Fuchs. > Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels and Survival in Patients With > Colorectal Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 26, No 18 (June > 20), 2008: pp. 2984-2991. > PMID: 18565885 > DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.15.1027 > > and the link for the abstract of the study is > > http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/18/2984 > > I used to post a lot of studies and news articles in health related > usenet newsgroups, but I always felt that an organized way to store > these links was needed. Social bookmarking is one way to archive this > kind of links in an organized way. Now since the fall of 2006 I've used > social bookmarking site Magnolia, <http://ma.gnolia.com> for this > purpose. Why Magnolia? It has a nice group feature, you can very easily > create topic related groups, and it uses comma (,) as a tag separator, > so you can use space in the tags. It also has a pretty user interface > :-). I've created public groups for nutrition, cancer, cardiovascular > diseases, vitamin D, herbs and for some other topics. I invite everyone > to register at the Magnolia home page and then join to any or all the > groups mentioned. After joining a group you can also post your own > bookmarks into it. > > Cancer group now has well over 1000 bookmarks, nutrition group over 3700 > bookmarks, and vitamin D group over 350 bookmarks. Thanks Matti for the info. I'll check out http://ma.gnolia.com. I trust anything you recommend in the health field to be of substance so this must be too. Thanks. Steve > > A couple of tips about searching and posting in these groups: > > - I divide the the bookmarks into three categories: scientific articles > published in scientific journals, news articles (usually about > scientific articles) and bookmarks, which are neither scientific > articles nor news articles. For the articles in the first category I use > the tag STUDY (for the sake of clarity I write the tags in upper case, > although in practice i usually use lower case; case does not matter in > searches), for the news articles the tag NEWS, and for all the others > both tag INFO and INFORMATION. Thus I am able to choose only one type of > these three types of bookmarks for the search, if I so wish. In searches > you of course need to use only INFO or INFORMATION, not both. > > - If the bookmark has a publication date like studies and news articles > usually have, I use publication year as a tag. Usually this is my first > tag of a bookmark, followed by STUDY, NEWS, or INFO, INFORMATION. The > year of publication is useful in many cases in limiting searches. > > - I divide studies in two categories: original research articles and > review articles. For the former I use the tag RESEARCH and for the > latter the tag REVIEW. Usually I place either the RESEARCH or REVIEW > immediately after the tag STUDY. Thus you can look for only original > research articles or review articles, if you so wish. The first three > tags in the bookmark of a scientific article therefore often look for > example like > > 2008, STUDY, RESEARCH > or > 2007, STUDY, REVIEW > > > Other study (STUDY) related tags: > > INVITRO: In vitro study (I write it together, because I started this > social bookmarking in del.icio.us, which uses space as tag separator and > therefore it was not possible to use space in tags, and now it's too > much work to edit all old bookmarks). > CLINICALTRIAL: Clinical trial (see the explanation for INVITRO above) > RCT: Randomized controlled clinical trial. > EPIDEMIOLOGICAL: Epidemiological study. > ANIMAL STUDY: Animal study. > HUMANS: A study with humans. I started to use this tag only fairly > recently, so it does dot give that many hits in searches. Leave it out > from the searches, if you get too few hits. > MEDLINE: The study is in Medline > PEER-REVIEWED: The study is peer-reviewed > > For the studies I always post a Medline reference (like the one above > about the vitamin D and colorectal cancer study) into the description > field including also the PMID. The description field and title field are > also searchable (this is a second search mode in addition to the tag > search), and including the Medline reference will allow for example a > search for any of the authors or for PMID. PMID search is useful for > example in checking whether a new study just about to be posted is > already in the group. > > > Some general tags: > > MEDICINE > PREVENTION > RISK > SCIENCE > THERAPY > TREATMENT > > > Some commonly used topic related tags: > > CHD: Coronary heart disease > CVD: Cardiovascular disease(s) > DIABETES: either type 1 or type 2 diabetes or both > TYPE 1: type 1 diabetes, used together with the tag DIABETES > TYPE 2: type 2 diabetes, used together with the tag DIABETES > HNCA: Head and neck cancer > HNSCC: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma > SCC: Squamous cell carcinoma > > > Links for the above mentioned groups: > > Cancer: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Cancer > Nutrition: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Nutrition > Cardiovascular disease(s: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/CVD > Vitamin D: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Vitamin-D > Herbs: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Herbs > > > Welcome! > > -- > Matti Narkia > > > > > > >
From: Kelley Eidem on 2 Jul 2008 20:53 On Jun 19, 5:03 pm, "Steve" <1...(a)123.com> wrote: > "Vitamin D helps colorectal cancer patients: study" > > http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1826509920080619?feedT... > feedName=ushealth1100 If there were a drug that could reduce colorectal cancer by 50%, it would be enforced by state laws at the point of a gun that everyone be required to take it. Every doctor's office would be swamped by drug reps advising the physicians to prescribe this drug.
From: M on 16 Jul 2008 01:25
The study didn't show that Vitamin D helps colon cancer patients. It only shows that high pre-diagnosis vitamin D levels make for a better post-diagnosis prognosis. The question of whether Vitamin D helps colon cancer patients is still unanswered, and while tantalizing, these data only lead the way for further research. I linked the story, and others like it, on my website, InteractMD.com Regards, InteractMD.com "Steve" <123(a)123.com> wrote in message news:8vrak.30933$ZE5.16562(a)nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com... > "Matti Narkia" wrote >> Steve wrote: >> > "Steve" <123(a)123.com> wrote in message >> >> "Vitamin D helps colorectal cancer patients: study" >> >> >> >> >> > > http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1826509920080619?feedType=nl& >> >> feedName=ushealth1100 >> > >> > this link might work better: >> > > http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1826509920080619?feedType=nl& >> > feedName=ushealth1100 >> > >> > One thing I should have added was that vit D (meaning vitamin D3) is >> > fat >> > soluble so vit D must be taken in a capsule containing fat. The brand / > form >> > I take is Now's Vitamin D3 softgel capsules (1,000 IU) containing olive > oil >> > and corn oil. If you're taking pills that contain vitamin D3, you > probably >> > aren't absorbing any vitamin D3 because there's no fat in the pill and >> > I >> > believe it must be taken with fat to be absorbed. >> > >> > Vitamin D3 is a very safe vitamin so probably the more the better (up >> > to > a >> > point but my guess is 5,000 IU is perfectly safe - see the video on it > that >> > somebody posted the link to here about a month ago). One of the reasons > vit >> > D is beneficial for cancer patients I believe is it decreases the >> > proliferation rate of cells with a high-proliferation rate. >> > >> > Of course vit D3 is highly recommended for those without cancer too > (1,000 >> > IU daily). >> > >> Thanks for the link, Steve. The reference for the study is >> >> Kimmie Ng, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Kana Wu, Diane Feskanich, Bruce W. >> Hollis, Edward L. Giovannucci, Charles S. Fuchs. >> Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels and Survival in Patients With >> Colorectal Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 26, No 18 (June >> 20), 2008: pp. 2984-2991. >> PMID: 18565885 >> DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.15.1027 >> >> and the link for the abstract of the study is >> >> http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/18/2984 >> >> I used to post a lot of studies and news articles in health related >> usenet newsgroups, but I always felt that an organized way to store >> these links was needed. Social bookmarking is one way to archive this >> kind of links in an organized way. Now since the fall of 2006 I've used >> social bookmarking site Magnolia, <http://ma.gnolia.com> for this >> purpose. Why Magnolia? It has a nice group feature, you can very easily >> create topic related groups, and it uses comma (,) as a tag separator, >> so you can use space in the tags. It also has a pretty user interface >> :-). I've created public groups for nutrition, cancer, cardiovascular >> diseases, vitamin D, herbs and for some other topics. I invite everyone >> to register at the Magnolia home page and then join to any or all the >> groups mentioned. After joining a group you can also post your own >> bookmarks into it. >> >> Cancer group now has well over 1000 bookmarks, nutrition group over 3700 >> bookmarks, and vitamin D group over 350 bookmarks. > > Thanks Matti for the info. I'll check out http://ma.gnolia.com. I trust > anything you recommend in the health field to be of substance so this must > be too. Thanks. > > Steve > > > >> >> A couple of tips about searching and posting in these groups: >> >> - I divide the the bookmarks into three categories: scientific articles >> published in scientific journals, news articles (usually about >> scientific articles) and bookmarks, which are neither scientific >> articles nor news articles. For the articles in the first category I use >> the tag STUDY (for the sake of clarity I write the tags in upper case, >> although in practice i usually use lower case; case does not matter in >> searches), for the news articles the tag NEWS, and for all the others >> both tag INFO and INFORMATION. Thus I am able to choose only one type of >> these three types of bookmarks for the search, if I so wish. In searches >> you of course need to use only INFO or INFORMATION, not both. >> >> - If the bookmark has a publication date like studies and news articles >> usually have, I use publication year as a tag. Usually this is my first >> tag of a bookmark, followed by STUDY, NEWS, or INFO, INFORMATION. The >> year of publication is useful in many cases in limiting searches. >> >> - I divide studies in two categories: original research articles and >> review articles. For the former I use the tag RESEARCH and for the >> latter the tag REVIEW. Usually I place either the RESEARCH or REVIEW >> immediately after the tag STUDY. Thus you can look for only original >> research articles or review articles, if you so wish. The first three >> tags in the bookmark of a scientific article therefore often look for >> example like >> >> 2008, STUDY, RESEARCH >> or >> 2007, STUDY, REVIEW >> >> >> Other study (STUDY) related tags: >> >> INVITRO: In vitro study (I write it together, because I started this >> social bookmarking in del.icio.us, which uses space as tag separator and >> therefore it was not possible to use space in tags, and now it's too >> much work to edit all old bookmarks). >> CLINICALTRIAL: Clinical trial (see the explanation for INVITRO above) >> RCT: Randomized controlled clinical trial. >> EPIDEMIOLOGICAL: Epidemiological study. >> ANIMAL STUDY: Animal study. >> HUMANS: A study with humans. I started to use this tag only fairly >> recently, so it does dot give that many hits in searches. Leave it out >> from the searches, if you get too few hits. >> MEDLINE: The study is in Medline >> PEER-REVIEWED: The study is peer-reviewed >> >> For the studies I always post a Medline reference (like the one above >> about the vitamin D and colorectal cancer study) into the description >> field including also the PMID. The description field and title field are >> also searchable (this is a second search mode in addition to the tag >> search), and including the Medline reference will allow for example a >> search for any of the authors or for PMID. PMID search is useful for >> example in checking whether a new study just about to be posted is >> already in the group. >> >> >> Some general tags: >> >> MEDICINE >> PREVENTION >> RISK >> SCIENCE >> THERAPY >> TREATMENT >> >> >> Some commonly used topic related tags: >> >> CHD: Coronary heart disease >> CVD: Cardiovascular disease(s) >> DIABETES: either type 1 or type 2 diabetes or both >> TYPE 1: type 1 diabetes, used together with the tag DIABETES >> TYPE 2: type 2 diabetes, used together with the tag DIABETES >> HNCA: Head and neck cancer >> HNSCC: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma >> SCC: Squamous cell carcinoma >> >> >> Links for the above mentioned groups: >> >> Cancer: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Cancer >> Nutrition: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Nutrition >> Cardiovascular disease(s: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/CVD >> Vitamin D: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Vitamin-D >> Herbs: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/Herbs >> >> >> Welcome! >> >> -- >> Matti Narkia >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > |