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Prediagnostic Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Pancreatic Cancer Survival.
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Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology [J Clin Oncol] 2016 Aug 20; Vol. 34 (24), pp. 2899-905. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jun 20. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Purpose: Although vitamin D inhibits pancreatic cancer proliferation in laboratory models, the association of plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] with patient survival is largely unexplored.<br />Patients and Methods: We analyzed survival among 493 patients from five prospective US cohorts who were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer from 1984 to 2008. We estimated hazard ratios (HRs) for death by plasma level of 25(OH)D (insufficient, < 20 ng/mL; relative insufficiency, 20 to < 30 ng/mL; sufficient ≥ 30 ng/mL) by using Cox proportional hazards regression models adjusted for age, cohort, race and ethnicity, smoking, diagnosis year, stage, and blood collection month. We also evaluated 30 tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor gene, requiring P < .002 (0.05 divided by 30 genotyped variants) for statistical significance.<br />Results: Mean prediagnostic plasma level of 25(OH)D was 24.6 ng/mL, and 165 patients (33%) were vitamin D insufficient. Compared with patients with insufficient levels, multivariable-adjusted HRs for death were 0.79 (95% CI, 0.48 to 1.29) for patients with relative insufficiency and 0.66 (95% CI, 0.49 to 0.90) for patients with sufficient levels (P trend = .01). These results were unchanged after further adjustment for body mass index and history of diabetes (P trend = .02). The association was strongest among patients with blood collected within 5 years of diagnosis, with an HR of 0.58 (95% CI, 0.35 to 0.98) comparing patients with sufficient to patients with insufficient 25(OH)D levels. No single-nucleotide polymorphism at the vitamin D receptor gene met our corrected significance threshold of P < .002; rs7299460 was most strongly associated with survival (HR per minor allele, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.68 to 0.95; P = .01).<br />Conclusion: We observed longer overall survival in patients with pancreatic cancer who had sufficient prediagnostic plasma levels of 25(OH)D.<br />Competing Interests: Authors’ disclosures of potential conflicts of interest are found in the article online at www.jco.org. Author contributions are found at the end of this article.<br /> (© 2016 by American Society of Clinical Oncology.)
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- Aged
Biomarkers, Tumor blood
Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal blood
Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal mortality
Cohort Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Prognosis
Proportional Hazards Models
Prospective Studies
United States epidemiology
Vitamin D blood
Pancreatic Neoplasms blood
Pancreatic Neoplasms mortality
Vitamin D analogs & derivatives
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1527-7755
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 24
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27325858
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2015.66.3005