ArticleDermato-endocrinology
Solar radiation and the incidence and mortality of leading invasive cancers in the United States.
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- The effects of sunlight exposure on mortality: a systematic review of epidemiological studies.NIHR open research · 2025Pooled it
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- Systemic effects of sunlight: 10-year review of cardiovascular, infection and cancer outcomes.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2026Review
- Annual space weather fluctuations and telomere length dynamics in a longitudinal cohort of older men: the Normative Aging Study.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2024Article
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- Geographic variation in urinary tract and genital cancers in Iran: a hypothesis involving exposure to solar radiation.BMC research notes · 2023Article
- Consideration of possible effects of vitamin D on established cancer, with reference to malignant melanoma.Pigment cell & melanoma research · 2022Review
- The effect of climatic and geographical factors on breast cancer in Iran.BMC research notes · 2020Article
- Intake of vitamin D and calcium, sun exposure, and risk of breast cancer subtypes among black women.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
- Cancer risk associated with living at high altitude in Ecuadorian population from 2005 to 2014.Clujul medical (1957) · 2018Article
- Current therapies in alleviating liver disorders and cancers with a special focus on the potential of vitamin D.Nutrition & metabolism · 2018Review
- Cutaneous malignant melanoma incidences analyzed worldwide by sex, age, and skin type over personal Ultraviolet-B dose shows no role for sunburn but implies one for Vitamin DDermato-endocrinology · 2017Article
- UV "Indices"-What Do They Indicate?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Review
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Abstract
Invasive cancer risk is inversely related to ultraviolet light exposure. This study explores relationships between cancer and the satellite-derived sunlight energy. We obtained the North America Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) daily average sunlight for the continental United States from 1999-2011. US Cancer Statistics age-adjusted-incidence and mortality was also obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We found that cancer incidence for all invasive cancers and for 11 of 22 leading cancers significantly decreased with increased solar radiation. Cancer mortality for all invasive cancers was not significantly associated with solar radiation, but for 7 of 22 leading cancers, including cancers of the uterus, leukemias, lung, ovary, and urinary bladder, increased solar radiation predicted decreased mortality. With increasing solar radiation, increased incidence and cancer mortality was observed for liver cancer and increased incidence but not mortality was observed for cervical cancer. The current study confirms studies relating UV radiation to the incidence and mortality of a variety of cancer types. We find associations between solar radiation energy and the incidence and mortality of a number of types of cancers.
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