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vitamin D deficiency
Hi,
I saw my oncologist today for a check up and she told me about an article that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine this past summer. The article states that many women on aromatase inhibitors are vitamin D deficient despite taking calcium and vitamin D supplements. My oncologist is testing vitamin D levels in all of her patients on AIs. If the number is below 30, she is prescribing medicinal vitamin D.
Karen
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Karen Raines Hunt
Dx April 2005 at age 46
stage 3A, very large (12cm) tumor
2 positive axillary lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, Her 2 +++
Bilateral mastectomy, radiation, reconstruction, A/C, Taxol, Herceptin, Tamoxifen, Aromasin
5 yrs since diagnosis and NED
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