'Palliative-D' Vitamin D to Palliative Cancer Patients

Summary

To test the hypothesis that vitamin D treatment during 12 weeks to palliative cancer patients can decrease opioid consumption, fatigue and infectious burden and increase quality of life.

Timeline

Start

2017-11-01

Primary completion

2020-06-09

Completion

2020-06-09

Publications

• Goodrose-Flores C, Bonn SE, Klasson C, Frankling MH, Lagerros YT, Bjorkhem-Bergman L. Appetite and its association with mortality in patients with advanced cancer - a Post-hoc Analysis from the Palliative D-study. BMC Palliat Care. 2023 Oct 26;22(1):159. doi: 10.1186/s12904-023-01287-1.
• Klasson C, Helde-Frankling M, Sandberg C, Nordstrom M, Lundh-Hagelin C, Bjorkhem-Bergman L. Vitamin D and Fatigue in Palliative Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study of Sex Difference in Baseline Data from the Palliative D Cohort. J Palliat Med. 2021 Mar;24(3):433-437. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0283. Epub 2020 Sep 16.

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Indications