Guest guest Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Vitamin D may cut prostate cancer risk, suggests sunlight study 15/06/2005- High sun exposure halved the risk of prostate cancer in men participating in a US trial, said researchers today, likely because of their body's higher vitamin D stores, writes Dominique Patton. If future studies continue to show that sunlight lowers prostate cancer risk, men may be advised to increase their vitamin D intake from diet and supplements as a safer option to sunbathing, they say. Writing in today's issue of Cancer Research, researchers led by Esther John of the Northern California Cancer Center noted that in men with certain gene variants, high sun exposure reduced prostate cancer risk by as much as 65 per cent. Previous research has shown that the prostate uses vitamin D to promote the normal growth of prostate cells and to inhibit the invasiveness and spread of prostate cancer cells to other parts of the body Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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