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- Leckstroem, Daniel, et al.
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The trials and tribulations of vitamin D : time for the ‘sunshine’ vitamin to come in out of the cold – or just more broken promises?
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Ingår i: Expert review of Endocrinology & Metabolism. - : Informa Healthcare. - 1744-6651 .- 1744-8417. ; 9:4, s. 327-344
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We are presently faced with the competing notions of modern life being a ‘state of vitamin D depletion’, implying a widespread need to supplement with vitamin D, or, the opposite view, which is that the present evidence can only support at best selective targeted vitamin D intervention. This is important as there is evidence that over the last 40–50 years there were downwards global trends in serum 25(OH)D concentrations, while individual consumption of vitamin D as supplements rose. For this reason and many others, a large population-based interventional study, the VITAL trial, was designed to try to establish the health value of vitamin D supplementation. VITAL is a huge primary prevention trial looking at the effects of vitamin D repletion in preventing cancer and cardiovascular disease in a fundamentally healthy population. This may seem an unusual approach given that what we mostly know about vitamin D is that is has some effects on the skeleton. This review looks to explore current knowledge about vitamin D in health and disease, and at how this is now undergoing significant reappraisal and revision. We will carefully critique the VITAL study design to see if it will allow for the construction of the detailed portfolio of clinical evidence so urgently needed to allow us better to understand role of vitamin D supplementation in health and disease.
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- Öberg, Kjell
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Management of neuroendocrine tumors : Current and future therapies
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Ingår i: Expert Reviews Endocrinology & Metabolism. - London : Expert Reviews Ltd. - 1744-6651 .- 1744-8417. ; 6:1, s. 49-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a genetically diverse group of malignancies that sometimes produce peptides that cause characteristic hormonal syndromes. NETs can be clinically symptomatic (functioning) or silent (nonfunctioning); both types frequently synthesize more than one peptide, although often these are not associated with specific syndromes. Based on data from various sources, the incidence and prevalence of NETs is increasing. The primary treatment goal for patients with NETs is curative, with symptom control and the limitation of tumor progression as secondary goals. Surgery is the only possible curative approach and so represents the traditional first-line therapy. However, as most patients with NETs are diagnosed once metastases have occurred, curative surgery is generally not possible. Patients therefore require chronic postoperative medical management with the aim of relieving symptoms and, in recent years, suppressing tumor growth and spread. Somatostatin analogues, such as octreotide long-acting repeatable (LAR), can improve the symptoms of carcinoid syndrome and stabilize tumor growth in many patients. Results from the placebo-controlled, double-blind, prospective randomized study on the effect of octreotide LAR in the control of tumor growth in patients with metastatic neuroendocrine midgut tumors (PROMID study) demonstrate that octreotide LAR 30 mg is an effective antiproliferative treatment in patients with newly diagnosed, functionally active or inactive, well-differentiated metastatic midgut NETs. An antiproliferative effect can also be achieved with everolimus, and combination therapy with octreotide LAR has shown synergistic antiproliferative activity. Sunitinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is active in pancreatic NETs. In the future, pasireotide, the multireceptor targeted somatostatin analogue, has the potential to be an effective therapy for de novo or octreotide-refractory carcinoid syndrome and for inhibiting tumor cell proliferation. Peptide receptor radiotherapy with 90Yttrium-DOTATOC or 177Lutetium-DOTATE is also a new interesting treatment option for NETs.
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