Vitamin D supplementation to palliative cancer patients shows positive effects on pain and infections—Results from a matched case-control study

• Maria Helde-Frankling,

  Affiliations ASIH Stockholm Södra, Långbro Park, Palliative Home Care and Hospice Ward, Älvsjö, Sweden, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Jonas Höijer,

  Affiliation Unit of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Jenny Bergqvist,

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Breast Centre, Capio St Gorans Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Linda Björkhem-Bergman

  * E-mail: linda.bjorkhem-bergman@ki.se

  Affiliations ASIH Stockholm Södra, Långbro Park, Palliative Home Care and Hospice Ward, Älvsjö, Sweden, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3505-9283

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