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Overview Skin and vitamin D
Cancer and Vitamin D - many studies
Melanoma might be suppressed by Vitamin D - many studies
Vitamin D from the sun reduces the risk of internal cancers, but increases some skin cancers – Nov 2021
The Greatest Public Health Mistake of the 20th Century (sunscreen block Vitamin D) - 2017
Cancers reduced by Vitamin D (Skin cancer in this review) – Dec 2022
Melanoma associated with vitamin D less than 30 ng (9X) – March 2021
Basal Cell Cancers predominate
Note: Search Google Scholar for "Basal cell carcinoma" "vitamin d" topical 5,200 hits as of March 2025
Table of contents
- The articles in Skin Cancer and UV:
- The articles in Skin Cancer and Genetics:
- The articles in Skin Cancer and Vitamin D Receptor:
123 Skin Cancer studies
The articles in Skin Cancer and UV:
- Vitamin D from the sun reduces the risk of internal cancers, but increases some skin cancers – Nov 2021
- Book: Sunlight, UV, Vitamin D and Receptor, Skin and other Cancers - Dec 2020
- The Greatest Public Health Mistake of the 20th Century (sunscreen block Vitamin D) - 2017
- UVB improvements to Vitamin D receptor appear to improve melanoma survival – Oct 2017
- UVA causes skin cancer, perhaps UVB (Vitamin D) prevents skin cancer – Jan 2017
- Skin cancer (in mice) due to UV was prevented by vitamin D (active, topical) – June 2016
- UV – adverse and beneficial effects – review Nov 2014
- UV Radiation and the Skin June 2013
- Vitamin D protects mouse from skin cancer – Sept 2012
- Vitamin D protects DNA against UV skin damage – 5 studies 2012-2013
- Too much UVB: skin cancer, too little UVB: other cancers due to low vitamin D – April 2012
- Use of tanning beds would reduce associated deaths by 10X – Oct 2011
- Hypothesis: UVA through window glass decreases vitamin D - 2009
- Most sunscreens actually increase the growth of skin cancer - May 2010
The articles in Skin Cancer and Genetics:
- Vitamin D genes vary with UVB in Europe, Africa, Asia – March 2020
- UVB increases vitamin D even if poor kidney by changing CYP27B1 genes in skin – Dec 2013
- UVB effects on genes of those with and without Psoriasis – April 2014
- Macular Degeneration decreased with UV and perhaps Vitamin D genetics– Oct 2011
The articles in Skin Cancer and Vitamin D Receptor:
- Book: Sunlight, UV, Vitamin D and Receptor, Skin and other Cancers - Dec 2020
- Vitamin D genes vary with UVB in Europe, Africa, Asia – March 2020
- Vitamin D Receptor in vitiligo skin activated by UVB – May 2018
- UVB improvements to Vitamin D receptor appear to improve melanoma survival – Oct 2017
- Brain cancer in 175 countries related to low UVB and low vitamin D – Oct 2010
123 Skin Cancer studies - wiki page:
- Cancers fought by repurposed drugs - aided by Vitamin D in many ways - Marik Aug 2025
- All UK Melanoma patients should get a Vitamin D test (only 30% do)- June 2025
- Dermatology's Disastrous War Against The Sun - April 2024
- Melanoma risk reduced by Vitamin D and other nutrients - 2023
- Metastatic Melanoma survived 2X longer if adequate level of Vitamin D – July 2023
- Melanoma death risk 0.63 X lower if poor Vitamin D Binding Gene – July 2023
- Melanoma is 1.4X more-likely if low Vitamin D – meta-analysis May 2023
- Cancers reduced by Vitamin D (Skin cancer in this review) – Dec 2022
- Melanoma Cancer detected more often (perhaps due to infrequent intense UVA) – Oct 2022
- Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) aided by various forms and types of Vitamin D (1.06 X to 10 X) – Sept 2022
- Melanoma might be suppressed by Vitamin D - many studies
- Vitamin D from the sun reduces the risk of internal cancers, but increases some skin cancers – Nov 2021
- Melanoma associated with vitamin D less than 30 ng (9X) – March 2021
- Book: Sunlight, UV, Vitamin D and Receptor, Skin and other Cancers - Dec 2020
- 10X more skin cancer cells killed by photodynamic therapy when add Vitamin D – Feb 2020
- Sunlight on skin has decreased 9X while melanoma has increased 30X – Feb 2020
- Melanoma 2.1 X more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Jan 2020
- Melanoma cancer growth slowed by increased Vitamin D Receptor (yet again) – Oct 2019
- High levels of Vitamin D and low rates of skin cancer among commercial fishermen – July 2019
- Basal Cell Carcinoma and Vitamin D
- The Risk of Skin Cancer From Sun Exposure Is Overblown - May 2019
- Increased incidence of 7 cancers if live far from equator (if not take vitamin D) – March 2019
- Rates of some newly diagnosed Cancers increased with higher Vitamin D (217,000 Danes) – Jan 2019
- Melanoma Is a Disease of Office Workers - Dec 2018
- The Greatest Public Health Mistake of the 20th Century (sunscreen block Vitamin D) - 2017
- Better Cancer survival if higher vitamin D a decade earlier (esp. Melanoma, Kidney, Prostate)– Aug 2018
- Widespread regular sunscreen application deemed not useful in the US – April 2018
- Melanoma 25 X more likely if low vitamin D – Feb 2018
- Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer 2X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – Oct 2017
- Dermatologists are reminded of the importance of vitamin D in 8 diseases – Oct 2017
- UVB improvements to Vitamin D receptor appear to improve melanoma survival – Oct 2017
- Recurrence of malignant melanoma may be reduced by 100,000 IU of vitamin D monthly – trial underway 2017
- Non-melanoma skin cancer varies with latitude, melanoma does not – April 2017
- Skin Cancers, Vitamin D, Vitamin D Receptor and Genes – Jan 2015
- UVA causes skin cancer, perhaps UVB (Vitamin D) prevents skin cancer – Jan 2017
- People with metastatic melanoma and initially Vitamin D deficient had 4.7 times worse outcome if not get enough D – Dec 2016
- Malignant melanoma may be reduced by skin-activated vitamin D – Nov 2016
- Sunscreen used daily vs discretionary: no difference in skin cancer rate – RCT 2016
- Skin cancer (in mice) due to UV was prevented by vitamin D (active, topical) – June 2016
- Some statins increase skin cancer risk by 40 percent (reducing vitamin D levels) – Jan 2016
- Skin cancer 20 percent more likely with some Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms – Oct 2015
- Melanoma survival doubled with Vitamin D binding protein polymorphism – Nov 2015
- Skin Cancer (SCC) minimized if get sun time around noon – Nov 2015
- Alzheimer disease 5X less likely with nonmelanoma skin cancer (lots of vitamin D) – May 2013
- 18X increased destruction of skin cancers if active vitamin D added to photodynamic therapy (mice) – March 2015
- UV – adverse and beneficial effects – review Nov 2014
- Will vitamin D loading dose and 50,000 IU monthly will help after melanoma surgery – Oct 2014
- Thin epidermis under skin cancer was thickened when vitamin D was raised to 70 ng – April 2014
- Egg-white omelets are now so 1995 – When will excessive sunscreen be so 2010
- Melanoma huge increase - perhaps due to use of sunscreen or lower vitamin D - Aug 2014
- Melanoma REDUCED by those getting the most UV, unless 5 blistering sunburns while in teen years – June 2014
- Death from melanoma (without ulcers) greatly decreased if have lots of vitamin D receptors – May 2014
- Melanoma risk 2X to 4X higher if Vitamin D receptor genes had morphed – March 2014
- Nonmelanoma skin cancer IS associated with increased risk of other cancers – March 2014
- Hypothesis - Dark skin evolved to avoid skin cancer - Feb 2014
- Vitamin D looks promising for head and neck squamous cell cancers – Aug 2013
- Decreased risk of non-melanoma skin cancer by working outdoors in Europe – April 2013
- UV and Melanoma: are they related – 2013
- Skin cancer increases other cancers (low-vitamin D) – Dec 2013
- Vitamin D receptor may suppress skin cancer – Dec 2013
- Melanoma is 44 percent LESS LIKELY if get sun on the job – Nov 2013
- UV Radiation and the Skin June 2013
- Melanoma not as thick if recently had a sunny vacation – Nov 2013
- Skin cancer risk and vitamin D from sun both decrease with darker skin – March 2013
- Prostate Cancer increased melanoma rate by 2X (vitamin D not mentioned) Nov 2013
- The Protective Role of Vitamin D Signaling in Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer - Nov 2013
- Molecular Link between Vitamin D and Cancer Prevention – Oct 2013
- Squamous cell cancers of head and neck, vitamin D, and the immune system – Aug 2013
- Melanoma and Vitamin D - association is not certain - 2012
- On-job UV associated with LESS, not more, skin cancer - April 2013
- Dermatologists in Australia – Squamous cell carcinoma not a function of vitamin D - March 2013
- Sunlight, Vitamin D and Skin Cancer – 2nd edition Aug 2013
- Melanoma reduces by half the amount of vitamin D activated by the skin – March 2013
- Merkel cell carcinoma (a rare skin cancer) recurrence 3X more likely if low vitamin D – Feb 2013
- Sunshine: Dangerous or Healthy – Schachter Center 2009
- Most German skin cancer doctors recommend both sunscreen and vitamin D – Dec 2012
- Melanoma less likely when far from equator – Oct 2012
- Risk of skin cancer vs. risk of low vitamin D – Nov 2012
- Indoor tanning not apparently associated with skin cancer – Feb 2012
- Sunlight Vitamin D and Skin Cancer – Jan 2013
- Red-haired mice can get melanoma without UV - Oct 2012
- Cancer - Skin
- Vitamin D protects mouse from skin cancer – Sept 2012
- Vitamin D protects DNA against UV skin damage – 5 studies 2012-2013
- Hypothesis: vitamin D suppresses skin cancer – Sept 2012
- No association found between melanoma and low vitamin D levels – Sept 2012
- Too much UVB: skin cancer, too little UVB: other cancers due to low vitamin D – April 2012
- New Zealand doctors are starting to prescribe more sunshine – Aug 2012
- Hypothesis – Increasing Folate or vitamin D decreases probability of skin cancer – July 2012
- Seniors, like everyone else, need vitamin D and should avoid sunburns – 2011
- A Dermatologist's Perspective on Vitamin D - Mayo Clinic April 2012
- UVB, Smoking and second cancers after melanoma – Jan 2012
- Many Organ transplants cause skin cancer – what is the role of UV – Feb 2012
- Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer associated with more than 15 ng of vitamin D in HMO Cohort – Dec 2011
- Head and neck cancer occurrence and deaths associated with low vitamin D – Aug 2011
- Hypothesis – worldwide increase in Melanoma due to UVA – Oct 2011
- Use of tanning beds would reduce associated deaths by 10X – Oct 2011
- Circadian rhythm affects skin cancer risk in mice - Oct 2011
- UVA most likely causes melanoma to progress– Sept 2011
- Cancers and Vitamin D Council
- People who were outdoors more got more skin cancer – Aug 2011
- Sun exposure is associated with increased survival from melanoma – 2005
- Native American Indians mostly died of skin cancer (nope)
- A vitamin D analog reduced UV generated skin cancer in mice – July 2011
- Calcium with vitamin D decreased risk of subsequent skin cancer by 2X – June 2011
- Melanoma and Vitamin D genes - multiple papers
- If avoiding sun for medical reasons you need oral vitamin D – April 2011
- Perhaps 28-40 ng of vitamin D would be good for Melanoma patients – Feb 2011
- Hypothesis: UVA through window glass decreases vitamin D - 2009
- Sunlight alone does not cause skin cancer - July 2010
- Possible association between Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer and vitamin D – June 2010
- Most sunscreens actually increase the growth of skin cancer - May 2010
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