VDR and cancer: Similar results have also been reported by Milczarek et al. who have demonstrated that the vitamin D analogues, PRI-2191 and PRI-2205, resulted in a significant increase in the expression of VDR and significantly promoted the chemosensitivity of cancer cells to 5-FU therapy in MC38 mouse colon cancer and, HT-29 cell line in vitro and in a xenograft mouse model of colon cancer [22, 35].