Childhood Cancer Survivors At Higher Odds of Early Death

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What does a vitamin of any kind have in common with the steroid cholecalciferol (aka vitamin D3)?
"Vitamin D" is a steroid and the human body's most powerful disease fighter.
Vitamin D supplementation to natural, healthy levels (at least 50 ng/ml) reduces cancers- at least 17 types- and all the big killers.
Please get current on this molecule and find out what has been learned. It is much, much more important than you realize based on the comments I have seen.
Vitamin D deficiency is linked to every major chronic disease without exception. Again, please read up on the facts- the ones your doctors are nearly clueless about, and then consider the situation.
Just because your doctor recommends a treatment or a multitude of prescription drugs does not mean he is treating you in the best manner. Look at all the catastrophes of the last few years (PSA and prostate "treatments"- nearly worthless and often iatrogenic), mammograms- overused- worrisome and often unnecessary in the extreme- no mention of vitamin D supplementation to eliminate 80% of all breast cancers (absolute, irrefutable fact- look it up!), diabetic drug protocols that were less than worthless, treating peptic ulcers with antacids instead of antibiotics- for 60 years!, synthetic steroids for asthma instead of supplementing vitamin D for a better treatment/cure, flu shots instead of vitamin D supplementation- vitamin D is at least twice as effective as the flu shot- look it up, etc.
Despite the drug companies attempts to downplay the importance and effectiveness of vitamin D the truth will out. Garbage level research studies that deliberately use almost meaningless, ridiculously small amounts of D (sometimes even D2!), and the famous disclaimer" more research with therapeutic doses of vitamin D are called for".
It doesn't matter what you think about vitamin D supplementation. You will be "on board' with it in five years time whether you believe it or not. Unless you want to commit health suicide that is.
It's bigger than all of us and it can't be stopped. Not even the drug companies or the AMA will be able to deny it. The AMA is in a horrible situation for having endorsed the "banning" and demonization of the sun and UVB rays in particular.
Let's see how they explain that?
The best chance for all of us to avoid major, early onset diseases is to supplement with vitamin D to at least 50 ng/ml, year round. I understand this and one day soon, perhaps, you will too. Your doctors will take a lot longer as they are not use to actually having a molecule that prevents diseases without writing multiple prescriptions. You need to help them understand by questioning their prescriptions and treatment approaches/protocols. Doctors are human too, like bankers, brokers, priests, professional athletes, politicians etc. They all make mistakes and are not infallible. Vitamin D deficiency definitively proves this fact.

Chris of MA 10:22AM April 07, 2010

The sarcasm and absolute lack of intelligence surrounding such a serious topic is rather disgusting and it is for this very reason issues like pediatric cancer go unresolved. Maybe a few of you should consider doing something more productive with your time instead of showing how insensitive and uninformed you are.
For those of you posting all of the vitamin D information why don't you go and fund a clinical trial instead of simply spreading your opinions with no facts to back them up. Vitamin D has been rumored to have all kinds of health benefits but because our government has not made health a priority such research has not been adequately funded.
I would love to see high dose vitamin D therapies proven and made available to those who might benefit. Retinoic Acid (high dose vitamin C) has been used for several years in children to help fight cancer but the results have not been stellar and some think the side effects are worse than any upside. The only reason this drug was even developed was because a pharmaceutical company thought it would make a great acne drug and saw a huge profit potential.
Pediatric cancer is the number disease killer of children under the age of 18 in the United States! Making smart comments about it will not make it go away nor will simple ignoring the facts. Progress has been made over the last 20 years but the results are still dismal. 25% of children diagnosed with cancer will not survive their fight! The kind of high profile attention given to breast cancer over the past few years needs to also be given to pediatric cancer.

Liams Father of NJ 12:48AM April 07, 2010

Reading "between the lines" in this article, a basic fact is brought up - radiation, whether used as direct treatment or in the form of mammogram, is dangerous, period. There are much more sane and useful diagnosis forms like ultra-sound and thermography [infrared] that are much less invasive without the side effects of nuclear radiation. BreastHealing.info to find out more.
Once again we at the web's "Healing News Network" have looked at numerous treatments for cancer, and most trained with conventional health care are in denial about the numerous holistic and natural means that have saved countless lives without the dangerous, invasive procedures. There is a shift, though, toward [what they call] "complimentary". Yet often it is used to counter the adverse effects from treatment outlined in this article. What "they" call "childhood cancer survivors" have often simply survived invasive treatments using dangerous poisons and surgeries, whey they often could have been better off treating the body holistically instead of simply treating sympton.

HealingNews of NM 11:57AM April 06, 2010

PSA's, mammograms, diabetic multidrug treatments etc. etc.
All of these recommended practices were not only useless, but in many cases detrimental to patient health. Yet mainstream medicine stood firmly by them.
As far as what your current doctors know or think of vitamin D what they don't know will likely kill you. No matter to them in the long run, they have plenty more where you came from.
You can bury your head in the sand and listen to out of date, misinformed talk from the mainstream or you can figure it out on your own.
Figure it out that the mainstream missed vitamin D completely, or ignored it. It was ignored by the drug companies because they could not patent the molecule (D3- cholecalciferol). It is indeed, nearly free form UVB radiation - the sun- or in pill form from any Target store.
But the heart of the matter is the drug companies. They stand to lose most in all of this- literally. Most of their modestly effective potions which will be discarded as mostly useless in comparison to vitamin D supplementation.
Not to mention the fact almost all medical research used vitamin D deficiency patients thus corrupting the results.
Think about that for a moment?
Whether you believe it or not you will be supplementing and checking your serum vitamin D levels five years from now. You can wait until then and take massive risks or start doing your body a lot of help and start now. Your choice- at least in the beginning. In the end you will see the light- and that's the sun, not an operating table lamp.

Chris of MA 11:44AM April 06, 2010

SAN DIEGO, March 31 -- GrassrootsHealth (GRH), a public health research organization working to get Vitamin D research from science into practice, announces it will host a landmark seminar April 9 in La Jolla, California to unveil the latest significant research on Vitamin D. According to executive director Carole Baggerly, "Vitamin D can prevent up to 80% of cancers with proper blood levels - its easy and safe. We're seeing epidemic levels of deficiency worldwide and we can stop it right in its tracks."
Healthcare luminaries, including medical doctors and scientists, will join together initiating a worldwide "Call to Action on Vitamin D." The information will be available to governments and individuals. "We can prevent nearly 50% of pre-term births when pregnant mothers have 4000 IU/day of Vitamin D," says Carol Wagner, MD, co-author of a new significant pregnancy study.
Saving Children's Lives
Studies show diabetes, rickets and high blood pressure in children are rising worldwide due to Vitamin D deficiency. The "Campaign to Save Children's Lives" will be unveiled during the La Jolla seminar held in conjunction with University of California San Diego's School of Medicine.
Top global experts will reveal startling new findings. Cedric Garland, world-renowned cancer researcher and epidemiologist, claims, "Up to 80% of cancers and type 1 diabetes can actually be prevented with Vitamin D. The implications for the world's populations, especially in poor countries, is astounding."
Papers and findings from the seminar will be sent to all major governments around the world.
"The vitamin D movement is happening at the grassroots level," says Baggerly. "Insurance is not the answer to better health. Vitamin D is a top of the list because it's simple and effective and low cost. We now have a silver bullet to actually decrease the risk for heart disease, many types of cancer, osteoporosis, hypertension and more. The research is in, it's definitive and solid and the world needs to know. Unfortunately many doctors in the U.S. don't yet know the benefits from Vitamin D sufficiency and this seminar is aimed at addressing that missing piece of information."
Vitamin D Absolutely Required for Optimum Health
Evidence now shows Vitamin D's role in preventing cancer. Multiple research findings establish that having adequate serum levels of Vitamin D substantially lowers incidence rates for many cancers, including breast, colon, ovary, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and several others.
Information on the Vitamin D Seminar is available at www.grassrootshealth.net/events.

Chirs of MD 11:33AM April 06, 2010

Vitamin D repletion cuts disease rates across the board. No question about this fact whether you believe it or not. It is coming, will soon enough be a reality, and all will benefit.
Vitamin D is NOT the sunshine vitamin, it is the SUNSHINE STEROID. There is nothing even close to it in its ability to reduce diseases- across the board.
You can sit there with contempt - prior to investigation or you can read about it, realize your ignorance and the danger you have put yourself in, and start raising your levels immediately. Just because mainstream medicine missed it completely doesn't mean it is not so. Their attitude "not invented here" will prolong the misery.
I've been researching vitamins, supplements, cancer rates and epidemiology, etc for 13 years. Nothing of note to report in the first 11 of those years. Just the same overblown, poorly reinforced claims of miraculous interventions.
Vitamin D is completely different in effect. Its scope and breadth of application defies description. No matter- it does what it does for the human body and no amount of denial will change that.
Remember when someone told you "don't shoot the messenger"? Please apply it now and start reading about the message.
As clearly as can be stated:
Vitamin D repletion (at least 50 ng/ml, year round 25 OH D levels) cut disease rates dramatically, unlike any compound, molecule, vitamin, nutrient, etc. Your mainstream doctors know almost nothing of this but that won't stop it from succeeding.
The advice to avoid the sun was and is the most iatrogenic medical statement in the history of the world.
Let me get this straight: the sun is bad for us- after 7000 million years and a vitamin D receptor (VDR) in every cell?
Think about it folks...it was so important all we had to do was show up! Do what we do- as in walk around with little clothing- as was the way for hundreds of thousands (and in one form or another millions) of years.
We managed to screw that up by building gloried caves and the results speak for themselves.

Chris of MA 11:20AM April 06, 2010

Mr. Menard
is the Phase Forward (NASDAQ: PFWD) Senior Vice President and CFO. Perhaps you should contact his company about his stuff.
Mr. Menard's reply:
I am no such person, though being a senior vice president would certainly be a step up.
C.M.

Chris of MA 11:04AM April 06, 2010

Please attend the following links and consider what has been learned:
http://www.ucsd.tv/series/index.aspx?show=show&seriesnumber=520
http://www.grassrootshealth.net/
While I can't possibly understand your grief and bitterness brought about by the horrible reality of your child's cancer. You truly have my sympathy, whether you want it or not.
To address your reality:
Healthy, natural levels of vitamin D (25 OH 0D) Vitamin D unquestionably reduce cancers and the incidence of a multitude of other diseases. Just because your doctors have blinders on in their treatment protocols doesn't change the facts. They are in the dark, behind the times, and bound to their path by medical protocols based on old news. The threat of lawsuits, always the determining factor in treatment- whether admitted or not, will loom and doom.
Your statement about vitamin D (defiency) not causing cancer is so naive, so profoundly ignorant, as to defy belief. Vitamin D deficiency DOES CAUSE CANCER and the informed know this. The facts are irrefutable and not subject to debate. Your ignorance in this bitter time has blinded you to the facts. If you can, overcome this, read the data, show it yourself f(yourself) and your doctors, and begin to understand.
Vitamin D is not a supplement. In its active form (calcitriol) it is a drug. So do not make the mistake of thinking this is a vitamin cure because it is not.
21st century babies are almost always born vitamin D deficient- probably 95%. If you followed the iatrogenic madness of avoiding the sun and covering yourself with sun screen than the baby was certainly born deficient.
Nursing mothers need to consume at least 64000 i.e. daily to ensure their babies will be replete with vitamin D via breastfeeding.
Begin your journey, find out what has been discovered, and realize the importance of vitamin D repletion. Whether you do this or not will not change the facts about vitamin D. There has never been a discovery like this since at least antibiotics. The information is clear and growing. It is an exciting time for all people who stand to benefit from this miraculous revelation.
There is hope for all of us and for the most part it doesn’t sit with mainstream medicine, certainly not in cancer treatment. The best way to avoid cancer is to never contract it so maintain healthy levels of vitamin D, whether you believe it or not, and reduce your chances of becoming sick.

Chris of MA 11:00AM April 06, 2010

Reading comments to article "Childhood Cancer Survivors At Higher Odds of Early Death" brings the question... What alternative would you suggest ..
We use modern medicine to cure current symptoms and stop the spread of aggressive disease. More often than not, this will prolong the life for the patient and in many instances lead to long term survival.
Comments like these show complete ignorance.
"is this what the kid really really wants for himself?
"Cookies for Kids' Cancer"??
"Maybe if they ate their vegetables"
Modern medecine is not perfect , but it works
30 Year cancer survivor
EF

Eric in NY of NY 10:58AM April 06, 2010

"several major surgeries, and countless rounds of chemo, radiation, and antibodies"
Heart-breaking, but one must ask the hard question:
is this what the kid really really wants for himself?

cindy of MD 10:17AM April 06, 2010