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SUBMITTER: Tracy SI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5596381 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tracy S I SI Maurer M J MJ Witzig T E TE Drake M T MT Ansell S M SM Nowakowski G S GS Thompson C A CA Inwards D J DJ Johnston P B PB Micallef I N IN Allmer C C Macon W R WR Weiner G J GJ Slager S L SL Habermann T M TM Link B K BK Cerhan J R JR
Blood cancer journal 20170825 8
We evaluated whether vitamin D insufficiency (VDI; 25(OH)D <20 ng/ml) was associated with adverse outcomes among follicular lymphoma (FL) patients using an observational prospective cohort study of 642 FL patients enrolled from 2002-2012. The median age at diagnosis was 60 years. At a median follow-up of 59 months, 297 patients (46%) had an event (progression, treatment failure), 78 had died and 42 (6.5%) had a lymphoma-related death. VDI was associated with inferior event-free survival (EFS) at ...[more]