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Vitamin D and prostate cancer

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Vitamin D actions: classical view and expanded view -- Vitamin D metabolic pathways -- Vitamin D and cancers -- Vitamin D-deficiency hypothesis -- Sunlight, vitamin D and prostate cancer risk -- Importance of local production of calcitriol -- Importance of 24-hydroxylase activity level -- Differential sensitivity to antiproliferative actions of calcitriol -- Inhibition of 24-hydroxylase activity by liarozole -- Anti-cancer mechanisms -- Calcitriol and inflammation -- COX-2 actions and prostate cancer -- Inflammatory mechanisms in carcinogenesis -- COX-2 and PG induction of cancer -- Three calcitriol actions to inhibit PG activity -- Potential synergy of calcitriol with NSAIDs -- Results of vitamin D therapy in in vivo trials of prostate cancer -- Calcitriol and naproxen -- Genetic mouse model of PIN-HG-PIN -- High dose intermittent calcitriol plus docetaxol.…”
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