ArticleDermato-endocrinology2012
Role of solar UVB irradiance and smoking in cancer as inferred from cancer incidence rates by occupation in Nordic countries.
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- Consideration of possible effects of vitamin D on established cancer, with reference to malignant melanoma.Pigment cell & melanoma research · 2022Review
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- Cutaneous malignant melanoma incidence is strongly associated with European depigmented skin type regardless of ambient ultraviolet radiation levels: evidence from Worldwide population-based data.AIMS public health · 2022Article
- The association of gastrointestinal cancers (esophagus, stomach, and colon) with solar ultraviolet radiation in Iran-an ecological study.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2019Article
- Occupational ultraviolet exposure and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas: a meta-analysis.Oncotarget · 2017Article
- Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, vitamin D intake, and pancreatic cancer risk or mortality: a meta-analysis.Oncotarget · 2017Article
- Comment on 'The burden of occupationally-related cutaneous malignant melanoma in Britain due to solar radiation'.British journal of cancer · 2017Article
- Murine Pancreatic Acinar Cell Carcinoma Growth Kinetics Are Independent of Dietary Vitamin D Deficiency or Supplementation.Frontiers in oncology · 2017Article
- Anticancer effect of dentatin and dentatin-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin complex on human colon cancer (HT-29) cell line.Drug design, development and therapy · 2017Article
- Micronutrients in Oncological Intervention.Nutrients · 2016Review
- Low 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations may explain the link between breast cancer risk and shift work.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2015Article
- Winter 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in young urban adults are affected by smoking, body mass index and educational level.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2015Article
- The Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency among Cancer Survivors in a Nationwide Survey of the Korean Population.PloS one · 2015Article
- A multicountry ecological study of cancer incidence rates in 2008 with respect to various risk-modifying factors.Nutrients · 2013Observational
- Molecular link between vitamin D and cancer prevention.Nutrients · 2013Review
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Abstract
A large body of evidence indicates that solar ultraviolet-B (UVB) irradiance and vitamin D reduce the risk of incidence and death for many types of cancer. However, most of that evidence comes from midlatitude regions, where solar UVB doses are generally high in summer. Data on cancer standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) by sex and 54 occupation categories based on 1.4 million male and 1.36 million female cancer cases for 1961-2005 in the five Nordic countries provide the basis for an ecological study of the role of solar UVB in the risk of many types of cancer at high latitudes. Lip cancer SIRs less lung cancer SIRs for men was the best index of solar UVB dose, which was weakly inversely correlated with both melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) SIRs. Lung cancer SIRs were used as the index of the effects of smoking. For men, the UVB index was significantly inversely correlated with 14 types of internal cancer-bladder, breast, colon, gallbladder, kidney, laryngeal, liver, lung, oral, pancreatic, pharyngeal, prostate, rectal and small intestine cancer. For women, the same UVB index was inversely correlated with bladder, breast and colon cancer. These results generally agree with findings from other studies. These results provide more support for the UVB-vitamin D-cancer hypothesis and suggest that widespread fear of chronic solar ultraviolet (UV) irradiance may be misplaced.
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