An enzyme, which plays a role in metabolizing vitamin D, can predict lung cancer survival, scientists at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered.
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The higher the level of CYP24A1, the more likely tumors were to be aggressive.
About a third of lung cancer patients had high levels of the enzyme. After five years, those patients had nearly half the survival rate as patients with low levels of the enzyme.
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CYP24A1 breaks down calcitriol, which has a normal and crucial role when kept in check. But when levels of CYP24A1 climb, the enzyme begins to hinder the positive anti-cancer effects of vitamin D.
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The study appeared in Clinical Cancer Research.
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