Is it Cancer or Vitamin D Deficiency?

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Doctors often avoid Alternative Medicine

Patients with vitamin D deficiency can appear via bone scanning can be misdiagnosed as having metastatic cancer.

"In this report, we present 4 such cases, in which clinicians [doctors] initially pursued diagnoses of metastatic malignancy and did not consider vitamin D deficiency... [in their diagnosis.] Eventual recognition of vitamin D deficiency and provision of supplementation resulted in prompt resolution of symptoms for each patient. In
appropriate cases, timely consideration of a diagnosis of vitamin deficiency can mitigate the anxiety associated with undergoing an evaluation for cancer."

In: American Journal of Medical Science, 2009, vol. 337. By: Drs. Khokhar, Brett and Desai, Dept. of Medicine, U. of S. Carolina School of Medicine.

Editor's note: The fault lies with the exclusion of Alternative Medicine among physicians. How often things like this specific situation occurs is not known. However, it does open a window to a wider spread problem.