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From: Matti Narkia on 25 Jun 2008 16:37
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.

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







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