Vitamin D May Slow Some Prostate Cancer

Over the years, vitamin D has been hailed, and often unhailed, as a cure for several unpleasant conditions. Now comes research from the Medical University of South Carolina suggesting that it can slow the progression of some non-aggressive prostate cancers. Science Daily reports that researchers at the school conducted a randomized, controlled clinical trial, which assigned 37 men undergoing elective prostatectomies either to a group that received 4,000 U of vitamin D per day, or to a placebo group that didn’t receive vitamin D. The men’s prostate glands were removed and examined 60 days later. The envelope please… Preliminary results show that many of the men who received vitamin D showed improvements in their prostate tumors, while the tumors in the placebo group either stayed the same or got worse. Note well: all of the men in the study had low-grade prostate cancers, with Gleason scores of 6 and below. There is no evidence that vitamin D can slow aggressive prostate cancer.