Re: 4th annual: Is melanoma simply a Vitamin D deficiency cancer?

Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"James Semmel" <feetback@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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TO: All melanoma researchers, doctors, and patients.


I may be an electrical engineer, but I have more than just a hunch that
melanoma is a Vitamin D deficiency cancer. Please consider the
following.

One of the skin's functions is to photosynthesize Vitamin D3 from
natural sunlight. As the body's provider of Vitamin D, the skin would
thus show initial signs of a critical shortage, which would affect all
ages of both genders and, if left uncorrected, would be fast-spreading
and deadly--just like malignant melanoma.

So the more sunlight you get, the more Vit D you make. The more Vit D you
make, the more likely you are to get melonoma. This sounds like melonoma is
a Vit D toxicity rather than a deficiency.

The reality is the melonoma is a result of damage caused by sunlight. It is
not a deficiency of anything.

Jeff

Getting melanoma and dying from it is not a simple 'more sun, more
melanoma' equation. When melanoma patients with a history of high-level
sun exposure are compared with those with little sun exposure the
'sunny' ones have a better prognosis. This seemed a perplexing problem
and inferred higher vit D3 levels may influence prognosis. BUT I'm not
sure if the comparison was for same-stage disease because lifestyle
factors probably play a role here too -sun worshippers paying more
attention to their skin and thus having more early stage disease, for
example. In addition (primary) melanomas sometimes occur in places that
don't get sun exposure.
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madiba
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