Cancer Treatment and Health Care

Prevention with Vitamin D

Another area of research in colon cancer prevention lies in the relationship between this disease and vitamin D. Researchers at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) has published a paper in the British Medical Journal, which has involved more than half a million people.

In the study, we analyzed vitamin D levels in blood and the number of people who developed colon cancer. The conclusions are clear: people with higher levels of vitamin D showed a 40% lower risk of colon cancer.

LACK OF VITAMIN D AND METASTASIS

Autonomous University of Madrid, has found a possible link between vitamin D and tumor development. A paper published in the Journal of Cell Biology explains that vitamin D may help prevent cancer in two ways.First, is activating genes that encode the E-cadherins, proteins involved in cell junctions and are linked to tumor development because its absence facilitates cell migration. This fact leads to an increase in the number of metastases (reproduction or extension of tumor to another part of the body). Secondly, vitamin D inhibits several proteins involved in the activation of the cytoskeleton, a set of polymers required for cell division and migration of metastasis. If it crashes the cytoskeleton of cancer cells, prevents these can be split and moved.

Source: http://www.diariosalud.net/content/view/18162/413/

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