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By Kathleen M. Wesa, MD, and Barrie R. Cassileth, MS, PhD, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York  / January 25, 2017

Vitamin D and Cancer: A Uniform Dose Is Unlikely to Fit All Patients

Technically, vitamin D is a secosteroid hormone, not a vitamin. Increasing evidence indicates that vitamin D exerts effects beyond calcium homeostasis. Importantly, for example, higher serum vitamin D levels are associated with better cancer outcomes, including survival.1-3 The protective effects...