I encourage my patients, after testing to determine their baseline level, to have vitamin D replacement to a therapeutic level and I explain to them that although I do not believe that this is the silver bullet to prevent breast cancer recurrence, it certainly won't hurt them and as previously stated by Dr. Sledge, the information that we currently know supports the fact that vitamin D does play a role in this process. Therefore I think the benefits of 1000 I.U. per day certainly outweigh any risk that vitamin D could possibly present for patients.
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