4X fewer mammograms when there are far fewer Breast Cancers
- What Kind of Breast Cancer Research Could Make the Biggest Impact?
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What Kind of Breast Cancer Research Could Make the Biggest Impact?
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"According to a study published in 2015, among 1,000 women who start screening at age 50 and are screened for 20 years, 2 to 3 will avoid dying from breast cancer and 200 women will have at least one false positive test, 30 will undergo a biopsy, 3 will be diagnosed with an interval cancer, and breast cancer will be over-diagnosed in 15. The rough estimate of the financial impact of excess testing and overtreatment following a false positive is close to 4.1 billion dollars each year.""Meanwhile, getting everyone’s vitamin D level up to at least 40-60 ng/ml, assuming an 80% reduced risk of incidence, is a safe and cost-effective intervention that could result in around 225,000 people who would be saved the trauma of breast cancer this year – both the disease itself and the horrific treatment."
20 minute analysis of cost of Vitamin D needed to get women in BC age-range in the United States to >40 ng
Guess that 50% of all women would be in the age-range to get Breast Cancer
Biweekly 50,000 IU of vitamin D cost $5 per year (non-obese) 70%
Weekly 50,000 IU of Vitamin D costs $10 per year (obese) 30%
so 70% @ $5 + 30% @10) = $6.50 per woman treated
times 75 million women = $500 million/yearCurrent cost of mamograms
Direct cost: $150 each X 20 million women annually = $3 billion
Direct cost: $4.1 billion."
Total cost $7.1 billionGuess that mamogram rate can be cut in half by having > 40 ng of vitamin D
Costs savings by reduced mamograms = $3.5 Billion
Cost of vitamin D = $500 million
Net Cost savings = $3 billion
Perhaps $10 billion costs savings if Women had higher Vitamin D levels (far more than Breast Cancer) *Vitamin D is indispensable for the health of women - editorial June 2022
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VitaminDWiki - Cost savings with Vitamin D contains
165 items include: - Vitamin D has been found to be cost-effective by many studies
- Estimated cost savings of getting most Canadians to 40 ng of Vitamin D - 2016
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- VA showed increased vitamin D associated with lower health costs - Lancet May 2012
- Diabetes prevented by 50,000 IU vitamin D monthly (Iran) – Jan 2022
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- Medical problems are thought to be a cause of 66 percent of bankruptcies – April 2019
- Vitamin D is the 3rd most important contributor to health, following exercise and food
- 10 fewer days of ICU Mechanical Ventilation 300,000 IU injection of vitamin D – RCT March 2019
- Employers gain 10 dollars in productivity for every dollar spent on giving Vitamin D for free
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- Biology of Vitamin D – 30ng min., 50ng preferred, 1000X lower cost than health problem – Feb 2019
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- 10 fewer days of ICU Mechanical Ventilation 300,000 IU injection of vitamin D – RCT March 2019
- ICU cost reduced by at least 27,000 dollars if get high dose vitamin D in first week - April 2017
- If you cannot readily get medical treatment, consider Alternative Med such as vitamin D
Less sun ==> more disease?
Click on chart for details- Does Less Sun mean More Disease 5 minute video made by VitaminDWiki
- Less sun, more back pain (low vitamin D) – Sept 2018
- Alzheimer’s increase due to less sun or more meat
- Less sun means more disease -Grant, Holick, Cannell, et al Feb 2015
- 340,000 US deaths annually due to insufficient sun (some due to low vitamin D) – July 2020
- Which Is Worse - Avoiding Sunlight or Vitamin D Deficiency – April 2019
- Avoiding the sun may be as bad as smoking - many studies
Vitamin D also Treats Breast Cancer
- Diagnosed with breast cancer – take vitamin D to cut chance of death by half – July 2018
- Breast cancer recurred twice as often if have less than 20 ng of vitamin D – Dec 2018
- Breast Cancer Mortality reduced 60 percent if more than 60 ng of Vitamin D – meta-analysis June 2017
- Half of Breast Cancer patients opt for vitamin D (German survey) – Jan 2021
- Vitamin D both prevents and treats Breast Cancer – 2019
- Vitamin D reduces the risk of Breast Cancer, improves treatment, and improves survival
- Vitamin D prevents breast cancer, reduces BC mortality, and reduces BC chemotherapy problems – Sept 2018
- Breast Cancer trial using 50,000 IU Vitamin D weekly cancelled (no funding)
VitaminDwiki - Chemotherapy and vitamin D - many studies
Increased Vitamin D might allow decreased Chemotherapy
Chart by VitaminDWiki
Warning: Vitamin D can increase potency of some Chemo, resulting in death if doses are not reduced
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