Breast Cancer prevention with vitamin D might reduce number of mammograms by 4X

4X fewer mammograms when there are far fewer Breast Cancers

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What Kind of Breast Cancer Research Could Make the Biggest Impact?

GrassrootsHealth

"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/year

Current cost of mamograms

Direct cost: $150 each X 20 million women annually = $3 billion

Direct cost: $4.1 billion. "

Total cost $7.1 billion

Guess 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

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Perhaps $10 billion costs savings if Women had higher Vitamin D levels (far more than Breast Cancer) {include}

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VitaminDWiki - Cost savings with Vitamin D contains

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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

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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)

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VitaminDWiki - Chemotherapy and vitamin D - many studies

Increased Vitamin D might allow decreased Chemotherapy

Chart by VitaminDWiki

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Warning: Vitamin D can increase potency of some Chemo, resulting in death if doses are not reduced

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