Vitamin D

A team of researchers led by National Cancer Institute (NCI) epidemiologist Dr. Michal Freedman states that vitamin D is highly successful in reducing deaths from cancers of the colon and rectum. You would think that everyone would want to know the significance of this especially as it relates to the treatment and prevention of cancer.

The researchers studied 16,818 people who had joined a nationwide U.S. government health survey between 1988 and 1994. The study found that people with relatively high blood levels of vitamin D when they entered the study had a 72 percent reduction in their risk of dying of colorectal cancer compared to those with lower levels of vitamin D.

Dr. Ralph Moss went to great lengths to inform his readers how far the media went in emphasizing “the negative aspect of the findings, that vitamin D, as one put it, was no "magic bullet" for cancer (as if anyone said it was). Here are some of the headlines of stories that were published hours after the news of the study first broke:”

"Vitamin D May Not Reduce Cancer Deaths" (AP)
"Vitamin D May Not Lower Risk of Cancer Deaths" (Fox)
"Vitamin D Is Not Magic Bullet for Cancer" (Wired News)
"Vitamin D Won't Help Prevent Most Cancers" (HealthDay)
"Vitamin D Doesn't Prevent Cancer Deaths" (Windsor Star)
"Vitamin D Benefit At Issue" (Ft. Worth Star)
"No Connection Found Between Vitamin D and Overall Cancer Deaths" (Medical News Today)
"Vitamin D Doesn't Reduce Cancer Risk" (Nutraingredients.com)
"Vitamin D Does Not Reduce Overall Cancer Mortality" (ANI India News)
"Vitamin D Has No Effect on Overall Cancer Death Rate" (Medical News Today, 2nd article)
"Study Raises Questions About Vitamin D and Cancer" (KWWL Iowa)
"Vitamin D Downgrade As Scientists Advise There is No Real Proof It Fights Cancer" (Daily Mail)

According to Dr. Moss, “The American Cancer Society anticipates that in 2007 a total of 52,180 Americans will die of colorectal cancer, representing approximately 10 percent of all cancer deaths (Cancer Facts and Figures 2007). If you prevented 72 percent of these deaths you would save 37,570 lives each year. To comprehend this graphically, the seating capacity of Fenway Park in Boston is 38,805. Thus, you could nearly fill this stadium to capacity with the people whose deaths from colorectal cancer could be avoided each and every year. Worldwide, the United Nations estimates that there are 500,000 deaths from colorectal cancer each year (W.H.O. World Cancer Report 2003). A 72 percent reduction would mean 360,000 lives saved each year. That's a lot of lives saved and a lot of misery avoided!”

“A dramatic rise in the heart failure hospitalization rate now being reported over the past three decades has coincided with the use of ultraviolet-B blocking sunscreen lotions which inhibit the production of vitamin D in human skin. The rate of hospitalization for heart failure nearly tripled since 1980. The public has been urged to avoid the sun and use sun-blocking agents beginning in 1971,” writes health advocate Bill Sardi.

[vi] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/uoc--ssm082107.php

[vii] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov link

[viii] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/4058.php

[x] http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Doi=57389

[xi] Glerup H, Mikkelsen K, Poulsen L et al. Commonly recommended daily intake of vitamin D is not sufficient if sunlight exposure is limited. J.Intern.Med. 2000;247:260-8.

[xii] Sayre, R. M., Dowdy, J. C., Shepherd, J., Sadig, I., Bager, A., and Kollias, N. Vitamin D Production by Natural and Artificial Sources. 1998. Orlando, Florida, Photo Medical Society Meeting. 3-1-1998. Ref Type: Conference Proceeding

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