Vitamin D supplementation: a potential therapeutic agent for metastatic colorectal cancer

Preclinical and epidemiological evidence suggests that vitamin D may have anti-cancer activities in patients with colorectal cancer. A recently completed, randomised Phase 2 trial of vitamin D(3) supplementation in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer has shown promising results, and a Phase 3...

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Autores principales: Yuan, Chen, Ng, Kimmie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7553965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32624575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-0958-8
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spelling pubmed-75539652021-07-06 Vitamin D supplementation: a potential therapeutic agent for metastatic colorectal cancer Yuan, Chen Ng, Kimmie Br J Cancer Comment Preclinical and epidemiological evidence suggests that vitamin D may have anti-cancer activities in patients with colorectal cancer. A recently completed, randomised Phase 2 trial of vitamin D(3) supplementation in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer has shown promising results, and a Phase 3 trial is currently underway. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-07-06 2020-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7553965/ /pubmed/32624575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-020-0958-8 Text en © Cancer Research UK 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Note This work is published under the standard license to publish agreement. After 12 months the work will become freely available and the license terms will switch to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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