Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration in German cancer patients

Oncology Reports

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1539-1543

  Reinhold, Uwe ^a   Schmitz, Barbara ^a   Kurbacher, Christian ^a   Nagel, Wolfgang ^a   Schmidt, Matthias ^a   Malaisse, Willy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Germany; Serum 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentration

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D; DRUG DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; WINTER; BLOOD; BREAST TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; SEASON; TIME; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VITAMIN D;

EID: 59249100807     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or_00000177     Document Type: Article

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