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SUBMITTER: Muller DC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4526455 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Muller David C DC Scelo Ghislaine G Zaridze David D Janout Vladimir V Holcatova Ivana I Navratilova Marie M Mates Dana D Midttun Øivind Ø Ueland Per Magne PM Brennan Paul P Johansson Mattias M
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20150528 8
Prospective cohort studies have provided some evidence that circulating vitamin D is associated with risk of, and survival from, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), but it is unclear whether concentrations of vitamin D at the time of diagnosis of RCC are associated with prognosis. We conducted a case-cohort study of 630 RCC cases, including 203 deaths, from a multicenter case-control study in Eastern Europe. Vitamin D was assessed as 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 [25(OH)D3], and we used weighted Cox models to es ...[more]