The role of vitamin D in reducing cancer risk and progression

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 342-357

  Feldman, David ^a   Krishnan, Aruna V ^a   Swami, Srilatha ^a   Giovannucci, Edward ^b   Feldman, Brian J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CALCITRIOL; MICRORNA; VITAMIN D;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLON CANCER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METASTASIS INHIBITION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D3 1-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCITRIOL; CHOLECALCIFEROL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROID HYDROXYLASES; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84899625940     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3691     Document Type: Review

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