Vitamin D and Cancer [electronic resource] /
Trump, Donald L.editor.
Johnson, Candace S.editor.
The following chapters provide excellent and comprehensive discussions of the potential role of vitamin D based therapies in breast, colorectal, prostate cancer and leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. These chapters also point out that the focus on these diseases is largely determined by the interests and expertise of the outstanding scientists who have chosen to pursue vitamin D based cancer therapeutics. To our knowledge, every tumor type ever evaluated has shown some biochemical and antiproliferative response to vitamin D. Similarly, vitamin D analogues, especially calcitriol, potentiate almost every cytotoxic agent with which combination therapies have been tested.
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Vitamin D and Cancer; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Vitamin D: Synthesis and Catabolism - Considerations for Cancer Causation and Therapy; Chapter 2: The Molecular Cancer Biology of the VDR; Chapter 3: Anti-inflammatory Activity of Calcitriol in Cancer; Chapter 4: The Epidemiology of Vitamin D and Cancer Risk; Chapter 5: Vitamin D and Angiogenesis; Chapter 6: Vitamin D: Cardiovascular Function and Disease; Chapter 7: Induction of Differentiation in Cancer Cellsby Vitamin D: Recognition and Mechanisms*; Chapter 8: Vitamin D and Cancer Chemoprevention
Chapter 9: Molecular Biology of Vitamin D Metabolism and Skin CancerChapter 10: Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer; Chapter 11: Vitamin D and Hematologic Malignancies; Chapter 12: The Vitamin D Signaling Pathway in Mammary Gland and Breast Cancer; Chapter 13: Vitamin D and Colorectal Cancer; Chapter 14: Unique Features of the Enzyme Kinetics for the Vitamin D System, and the Implications for Cancer Prevention and Therapeutics; Chapter 15: Assessment of Vitamin D Status in the 21st Century; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The following chapters provide excellent and comprehensive discussions of the potential role of vitamin D based therapies in breast, colorectal, prostate cancer and leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. These chapters also point out that the focus on these diseases is largely determined by the interests and expertise of the outstanding scientists who have chosen to pursue vitamin D based cancer therapeutics. To our knowledge, every tumor type ever evaluated has shown some biochemical and antiproliferative response to vitamin D. Similarly, vitamin D analogues, especially calcitriol, potentiate almost every cytotoxic agent with which combination therapies have been tested.
Cancer research.
Nutrition   .
Pharmacology.
Cancer Research.
Nutrition.
Pharmacology/Toxicology.