{"id":162879,"date":"2023-04-27T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/study-suggests-that-maintaining-normal-vitamin-d-levels-may-benefit-patients-with-advanced-skin-cancer"},"modified":"2023-04-27T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:22:21","slug":"study-suggests-that-maintaining-normal-vitamin-d-levels-may-benefit-patients-with-advanced-skin-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/study-suggests-that-maintaining-normal-vitamin-d-levels-may-benefit-patients-with-advanced-skin-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests that maintaining normal vitamin D levels may benefit patients with advanced skin cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-suggests-that-maintaining-normal-vitamin-d-levels-may-benefit-patients-with-advanced-skin-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research indicates that for patients with advanced skin cancer, it may be important to maintain normal vitamin D levels when receiving immunotherapy medications called immune checkpoint inhibitors. The findings are published by Wiley online in <i>CANCER<\/i>, a peer-reviewed journal of the American <i>Cancer<\/i> Society.<\/p>\n<p>Vitamin D has many effects on the body, including regulation of the immune system. To see whether levels of vitamin D might impact the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors, investigators analyzed the blood of 200 patients with advanced melanoma both before and every 12 weeks during immunotherapy treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A favorable response rate to immune checkpoint inhibitors was observed in 56.0% of patients in the group with normal baseline vitamin D levels or normal levels obtained with vitamin D supplementation, compared with 36.2% in the group with low vitamin D levels without supplementation. Progression\u2010free survival\u2014the time from treatment initiation until <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer+progression\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer progression <\/a>\u2014in these groups was 11.25 and 5.75 months, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research indicates that for patients with advanced skin cancer, it may be important to maintain normal vitamin D levels when receiving immunotherapy medications called immune checkpoint inhibitors. The findings are published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Vitamin D has many effects on the body, including regulation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}