Dr. Moyad on the history of vitamin D trials in urology
“It was vitamin E and selenium in 2011-2012. There was a lot of hype about it. People were very excited. They lost their excitement in urology about it, but then along came vitamin D,” says Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH.
In this interview, Mark A. Moyad, MD, MPH discusses the 2011 Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) and the recently completed VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL), both of which explored the impact of vitamin D on urologic endpoints. Moyad is the Jenkins/Pomkempner Director of Complementary Alternative Medicine in the Department of Urology at the University of Michigan Medical Center.
Olaparib monotherapy shows benefit in HRR+ biochemically recurrent prostate cancer
August 22nd 2024“This study is a breakthrough because it is the first trial to show that a non-hormonal drug can induce durable complete remissions in recurrent prostate cancer patients with BRCA2 mutations—one of the most aggressive subtypes of this disease,” says Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, MD.
