Jeyran Mahdavi Izadi

[ 1 ] - Association between pre-chemotherapy serum levels of vitamin D and clinicopathologic findings in gastric cancer

Background: To examine serum levels of vitamin D in newly diagnosed gastric cancer (GC) patients compared with normal subjects and any possible association with prognostic variables. Methods: One-hundred subjects (50 GC and 50 controls) were enrolled and serum vitamin D levels were assessed using ELISA. Based on two definitions, vitamin D was classified as a sufficient level (≥30 ng/dL) and op...