Vitamin D and Lymphoma

[Shar0n]

It appears to be increasingly apparent that Vitamin D insufficiency may have a part to play in increasing the risks for many diseases - including some NHL's.

There has been some concern in the past about whether lymphoma patients are more likely to develop hypercalcemia when supplementing with Vitamin D. I would always err on the side of caution and discuss with the oncologist/haemotologist before deciding to supplement.

Obviously they can't keep up with all of the studies so, as I intend discussing it with my own oncologist at my next appointment, I intend to bring this recent study with me, which would suggest that at the doses used there was not an issue:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

I thought it might be useful for anyone here who wishes to do the same.

[Josie2rulrs]

It seems that a lot of doctors really do not support supplements because there are no proven studies. I think we have to take matters into our own hands sometimes

[Shar0n Volunteer in reply to Josie2rulrs]

I agree. We have to inform ourselves and not expect the doctors to do everything. They help us with the tools they have but we need our own set of tools too.

[Shar0n Volunteer]

This is another study which is specific to NHL and Vitamin D. Maybe in the future the doctors will be able to add it to their toolkit

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/207...