Vitamin D Deficiencies Can Impact Myeloma Outcomes
A lack of vitamin D can have major impacts on myeloma treatment outomes.
Most people do not think about their vitamin D intake, but Chloe Spear, BSN, RN, OCN, knows that it is important — especially for patients with myeloma.
Spear, clinical specialty coordinator in the Myeloma Program at Mount Sinai, conducted a study examining the effects that a vitamin D deficiency can have on outcomes for patients with myeloma. She hopes to turn her findings — that patients with deficiencies have poorer prognoses – into a standard-of-care for treating patients who come into the clinic with vitamin D deficiencies. Intervention would be fairly simple and straightforward: prescribing patients with oral vitamin D supplements to take daily.
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