Vitamin D boosts cancer treatment
Giving cancer patients a form of vitamin D could help radiotherapy work more effectively, researchers have suggested.
The combination could help wipe out cancer cells altogether.
Radiation therapy is commonly used prior to surgery to reduce the size of the tumour, and after surgery to eradicate any remaining cells and to reduce the chance of the tumour returning.
But there are often some cells which are resistant to the treatment and which could cause the cancer to recur.
Excess calcium
Tests on mice have now shown combining a form of vitamin D with radiotherapy means these remaining cells can be destroyed.
In the study, researchers from Dartmouth Medical School compared tumour growth in mice given the combined therapy, using a derivative of vitamin D called EB 1089, and others given radiation therapy alone.
Source BBC News
The combination could help wipe out cancer cells altogether.
Radiation therapy is commonly used prior to surgery to reduce the size of the tumour, and after surgery to eradicate any remaining cells and to reduce the chance of the tumour returning.
But there are often some cells which are resistant to the treatment and which could cause the cancer to recur.
Excess calcium
Tests on mice have now shown combining a form of vitamin D with radiotherapy means these remaining cells can be destroyed.
In the study, researchers from Dartmouth Medical School compared tumour growth in mice given the combined therapy, using a derivative of vitamin D called EB 1089, and others given radiation therapy alone.
Source BBC News
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