Vitamin D

dianetavegia said:

Yep
Actually, it's Vitamin D3 and that is not found in your 'One A Day' or even some Centrum type vitamins.

I'm taking 4,000 IU's in Vit D3 alone, plus get some in my Calcium supplements, also recommended for prevention of recurrence and in my Centrum Silver Ultra Women's daily vitamin. An aspirin a day is also recommended.

A= Aspirin (325mg)
B= Better Diet Diet Here
C= Calcium
D= Vitamin D3
E= Exercise

Information for our new members.
The studies were all done on Stage III colon cancer patients.

A: an aspirin a day
B: Better diet with no red meat or limited to 4 ounces a month
C: Calcium
Vitamin D3 which is only found in a few foods. Note: this is NOT the Vit. D in One a Day, etc. It is in Centrum Ultra, etc.
E: Exercise The Dana Farber Cancer Institute has done several studies which prove recurrence can be avoided at a rate of 55% in Stage III women who exercise regularly.

ASPIRIN:
CHICAGO – Score another win for the humble aspirin. A study suggests colon cancer patients who took the dirt-cheap wonder drug reduced their risk of death from the disease by nearly 30 percent.

Aspirin already is recommended for preventing heart attacks and strokes, along with its traditional use for relief of minor aches and pains. Its merit in colon cancer prevention has been tempered by its side effects, bleeding from irritation of the stomach or intestines.

The new study suggests patients who already have colon cancer may benefit from taking aspirin along with surgery and chemotherapy. In a separate analysis of a subgroup of patients, only those with the most common type of tumor, those that overproduce the Cox-2 enzyme, saw a benefit.

"The paper is absolutely incredible, and I don't gush normally," said Dr. Alfred Neugut of Columbia University Medical Center in New York who has done similar research but was not involved in the new study. In an accompanying editorial, Neugut wrote that the study "comes as close as it can to offering patients a way to help themselves.".....
The yahoo link for this article is now old but a search can be done online for more information using the doctor's name.

BETTER DIET: The Mediterranean Diet is believed (study being done at U of Mich) to raise survival rates from Colon Cancer by 6%.

CALCIUM:
Should Everyone Take Calcium and Vitamin D?
Written by Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD.

Only about five years ago, every patient of mine who finished chemotherapy was given a vitamin cocktail to further reduce colon cancer risk. It was calcium, selenium, vitamin E and folic acid.

Over the last three years, folic acid has been shown to increase growth of polyps, and in patients with metastatic disease it may shorten life. The protective value of vitamin E has been questioned, and there was evidence that it might increase prostate cancer risk. Selenium did not show benefit.

So we are down to calcium. This supplement has been shown repeatedly to benefit patients by reducing cancer risk for a variety of solid tumors including colon cancer. A recent publication by Dr. Yikyung Park from the National Cancer Institute showed that supplementation of 1200 mg calcium in women and men over the age of 50 decreased cancer risk by 17% for men and 23% for women (Archives of Internal Medicine, February 23, 2009). These were cancers of the gastrointestinal tract mainly colon cancers.

The usually source for calcium in our diet is milk products (yogurt, cheese etc) as well as meat. The calcium pathway is very interesting because it requires activity of vitamin D. Without vitamin D it is difficult to absorb calcium and put it into the organs where we need it, but to make sure we have sufficient vitamin D we need some sun exposure (vitamin D is activated in the skin) and we need a functional kidney.

When vitamin D was tested in patients with colon cancer it was found by Dr. Charles Fuchs in the Journal of Clinical Oncology published in June last year that the patients with the highest vitamin D levels lived longer suggesting that low levels may be associated with shorter survival. I recommend all my patients take 1500 mg of calcium and 1000-3000 units of vitamin D daily.

If you have a history of kidney stones or inflammatory bowel disease please check with your doctor first before starting calcium supplements.

D3: Watch this video on Vitamin D3 and cancer
Watch the Youtube video at: Click Here

In a new study, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center and Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UC San Diego used a complex computer prediction model to determine that intake of vitamin D...

EXERCISE: Do a web search for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute colon cancer exercise Using all those words should bring it right up. 55% is amazing!

lcarper2 said:

asprin
I was told I can't take it while on chemo by my ONC

John23 said:

Amazing


What is amazing, is that the body converts sunlight into vitamin D,
and the daily needed requirement is had , by exposing the skin
(like an arm) to the unobstructed sun's rays for as little as
15 minutes a day.

There is no "supplement" that can do what the body can do, since
the process of converting the sun's energy into vitamin D is a complex
method that involves biological and chemical reactions that the body
needs for it's survival.

The more we try to fool Mom Nature, the worse she treats us.

It's been noted a long, long time ago, that the less an organ is
used, the less it will be able to do it's job well. Taking supplements
to correct what should be done normally, will eventually result
with an inability for it to be done normally.

75% of the skin surface AND as we age, our bodies no longer convert sunlight to Vit D3 as efficiently. Also, a person with dark skin, such as an African American, has even more trouble converting sunlight to D3.

lisa42 said:

Yup
Yup, vitamin D has now been associated with so many things- fighting off viruses, bone health, heart health, and even colon cancer. I've been supplementing my vitamin D for close to a year now, after requesting the my vit. D level get tested. I found that my vit. D level was only at 13 & at that time anything 32 or less was considered vitamin D deficient. Literally within 3 weeks of starting on the spray vitamin D, my level went up to 32. Two months after that it was at 50. I believe they have even upped the minimum amount, I think to 50. When I first started taking supplements and was retested again a couple of months later, I went only from 13 to 15. I wondered if I was having an issue with the pills not being absorbed. I did some research on sublingual and spray nanoparticle vitamins to learn that the body absorbs things much easier that way instead of from the stomach/small intestine.
I now take my multivitamin and a separate vitamin D through "spray" vitamins.
There are a few options available when you search for them. I noticed that some of the different spray vitamin D's needed 8 sprays to get the full dose and others needed just 6. I settled on getting a spray vitamin D from the www.mercola.com website. It was a bit less and needed 6 sorays. You can always take less than that and make it last longer, as the recommended dose with the 6 sprays is a pretty high dose.
The brand of the spray multivitamin I use Lumina Healthcare. It does cost about $30 per month (per bottle), which is pricier than most multivitamin tablets, but I figure that most people's bodies only absorb about a third of the pill, vs. all of the spray form, so that makes it a much better deal with better results (which is what's important!).
Lumina Health doesn't sell their vitamins themselves online- I've gotten them through both amazon.com and also through Swanson vitamins. On the Swanson website, it's harder to navigate if you look under their vitamin category. Instead, enter Lumina spray multivitamin in their search window & then it will come up on the screen.

Good luck!
Lisa