What to do? was.....Another Vitamin D study worthreading

[Guest guest]

G'day Roy and welcome.

You say the DRE (Digital Rectal Examination) " indicated a growth " Was this

on the right side where the positive biopsy results were from? If that is

the case then it would seem to be in your best interests to consider some

form of therapy sooner rather than later.

On the other hand, if the positive biopsy needles were from the opposite

side of the gland from positive DRE finding, then it might be an idea to

have another biopsy to explore the positive DRE information. If it is

possible for your to have this under the guidance of an expert using the

Color Doppler scans it might be beneficial for you in providing more

information.

The fact that there were so many positive needles (rather than your age)

indicates the possibility of a fairly large tumour and would normally be

contra-indicative for the choice of AS (Active Surveillance)

I don't know if you have come across my website yet. It contains, amongst

other things, the stories of over 1,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer>

The stories are indexed by age, PSA, Gleason and choice of treatment and you

can find the index here http://www.yananow.org/exp_data.php?desc=All

All the best

Terry Herbert

in Melbourne Australia

Diagnosed ‘96: Age 54: Stage T2b: PSA 7.2: Gleason 7: No treatment. Jun '07

PSA 42.0 - Bony Metastasis: Aug '07: Intermittent ADT:

My site is at www.prostatecancerwatchfulwaiting.co.za

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know, and the

less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything. Joyce

Carey

Another Vitamin D study

> worth reading

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> Another study showing that high levels of Vitamin D

> supplementation (with no

> ill effects)

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> are required to attain blood levels of D3(OH) above 40

> ng/l, especially in

> older adults.

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>

> The Best to You and Yours!

>

> Jon in Nevada

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> Study determines how much Vitamin D3 is needed to achieve

> optimal blood

> levels

>

>

>

> Since 1998, Grassroots, a non-profit community service

> organization

> dedicated to promoting public

>

> awareness about Vitamin D3 collected data on over 3,600

> study participants.

> The mean age of

>

> participants was 53.3+/-13.4 years. Every participant had

> their Vitamin D3

> level assessed every six

>

> months along with details on the dose of Vitamin D

> supplements being taken.

> Vitamin D3 level

>

> results were returned to the participants who were then

> able to modify their

> dose to achieve

>

> maximum blood levels.

>

>

>

> To date epidemiological data suggests that the anticancer

> effect of Vitamin

> D3 occurs when blood

>

> levels are greater than 40ng/ml. Therefore, the aim of this

> study was to

> determine what dose of

>

> Vitamin D3 is necessary to achieve blood levels between

> 40-60ng/ml.

>

>

>

> Approximately 25% of the participants did not take any

> Vitamin D3

> supplements, while 47% took up

>

> to 2000IU per day, 1.8% took over 10,000IU and the majority

> took up to

> 5000IU per day.

>

> Despite taking as much as 10,000IU Vitamin D3 per day, no

> participant in the

> study demonstrated

>

> Vitamin D3 levels in the toxic range of >200ng/ml. For

> those severely

> deficient in Vitamin D3, each

>

>

>

> 1000IU of increased supplementation resulted in an increase

> of 10ng/ml in

> Vitamin D3 blood levels.

>

> Those with existing blood levels above 30ng/ml demonstrated

> an 8ng/ml

> increase in blood level for

>

> every 1000IU given, and those with existing levels above

> 50ng/ml showed an

> increase of only 5ng/ml

>

> for every 1000IU of Vitamin D3. This demonstrates how

> difficult it would be

> to take enough Vitamin

>

> D3 to reach toxic levels. As blood levels increase,

> absorption decreases.

>

>

>

> Perhaps the most surprising finding was the dose of Vitamin

> D3 necessary to

> ensure that 95.7% of the

>

> population achieved levels of >40ng/ml was 9,600IU.

> Although such doses are

> an order of magnitude

>

> higher than those currently recommended, these calculated

> daily intakes are

> of the same magnitude as

>

> produced by a single dose of UV-B radiation achieved during

> a few minutes of

> solar UVB exposure

>

> near noon in midsummer, assuming nearly complete skin

> exposure.

>

>

>

> Once again, these results demonstrate the importance of

> actually measuring

> blood levels of Vitamin

>

> D3 to ensure that the dose taken is adequate to achieve

> optimal blood

> levels.

>

>

>

> The complete study report can he accessed here.

> http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/31/2/607.full.pdf+html

>

>

>

> 1) Vitamin D Supplement Doses and Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D

> in the Range

> Associated with

>

> Cancer Prevention

>

> Anticancer Research February 2011 vol. 31 no. 2 607-611

> Heaney,

>

>

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