A new study links high levels of vitamin D associated with an increased risk of skin cancer only underlines what doctors have to say all the time: Do not forget the sunscreen.
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Dr. Melody J. Eide, and researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit studied more than 3,200 white participants in a health maintenance organization at high risk of developing melanoma skin cancer.
These participants had osteoporosis, a disease in which bones weak and brittle, or are concerned about the possible diagnosis along.
After seeing the level of patients with vitamin D, which is crucial for bone health and medical history, the team found that people with higher vitamin is an increased risk for the development of the two found types of nonmelanoma skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma, the most common and rarely fatal, and squamous cell carcinomas.
Dr. Jennifer Stein, a lecturer at the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at New York University Langone Medical Center said the study is valuable because scientists studied a large group of people, as the medical records of patients seen and no longer rely on the memories of patients.
He said that although the study is not to discover why the amounts of the main actors of the vitamin, sunshine a "reasonable explanation" and the report is that further evidence that vitamin D in skin cancer therapy.
The study authors noted that "evidence of association of the vitamin D levels in skin cancer is inconsistent," and that more research. The results were published in the Archives of Dermatology.
Diagnosed non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common malignant tumor in the USA and prostate, lung, colon, ovarian and breast cancer together, says the study.
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"Sunlight is a source of vitamin D," Stein said. "We know that sun exposure is clearly linked to skin cancer, especially in this type of skin cancer."
Almost 37 percent of Americans take vitamin D, and Stein said he did not know, because to stop the study.
"It's a healthy amount of vitamin D," he said. "The surest way to get vitamin D in the diet in place of the sun"
More than two million non-melanoma skin cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year, according to the American Cancer Society. Dermatologists diagnose and treat more than 3.5 million cases of skin cancer each year, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. To almost 20 percent of Americans develop skin cancer in their lives.
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