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

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.

Somebody even did the experiment. Way back in 1981, a small group of
Stanford researchers added Vitamin D3 to a test tube with human
melanoma cells and noticed that it inhibited their growth. (See Colston
K, Colston MJ, Feldman D. "1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and malignant
melanoma: the presence of receptors and inhibition of cell growth in
culture." Endocrinology. 1981 March;108(3):1083-6.) Since Vitamin D3
inhibits growth of human melanoma cells in a test tube, then why on
earth wouldn't it do so right where it is being generated in the skin?

I realize that new views are always painfully slow to find acceptance
in medicine, and so just as I've done the last few years, I'll review a
melanoma finding in a monthly follow up post and discuss how it is
explained by Vitamin D--or the lack thereof.

Thank you very much for carefully considering this novel idea.

James Semmel
Albuquerque, New Mexico


reference:
http://www.mpip.org/bb/shtml/364418.shtml
Last month's follow up to the 4th annual discussion: "Is melanoma
simply a Vitamin D deficiency cancer?"

"James Semmel" <feetback@shoebusters.com> wrote in message
news:1169051502.375449.209620@q2g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> 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.

Not shoes?

Damn, I shan't see the answer to this because we're going to Wales for a
fortnight. What a time to go, just when I really need to know something :-(

Keep well, everyone, see you when I get back.

Hugs,

Mary

Mary,

It's not shoes, but they could certainly influence the location of the
deficiency.

Hugs and kisses!

james


Mary Fisher wrote:
> "James Semmel" <feetback@shoebusters.com> wrote in message
> news:1169051502.375449.209620@q2g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> > 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.
>
> Not shoes?
>
> Damn, I shan't see the answer to this because we're going to Wales for a
> fortnight. What a time to go, just when I really need to know something :-(
>
> Keep well, everyone, see you when I get back.
>
> Hugs,
>
> Mary

"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:45ae59b6$0$757$4c56ba96@master.news.zetnet.ne t...
>
> "James Semmel" <feetback@shoebusters.com> wrote in message
> news:1169051502.375449.209620@q2g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>> 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.
>
> Not shoes?
>

Shoes that leach Vitamin D from your body are Death! Death! <Cue Scary
Music>

;-) <=== Smiley for the very literal who might otherwise have thought I was
serious . . . .

Please, doesn't anyone have something to talk about in ASCB besides spam??

Ann T.
Remove 'dontsendspam' from address to reply by email

"A.P. Thorsen" <annthorsendontsendspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> I may be an electrical engineer, but I have more than just a hunch that
>>> melanoma is a Vitamin D deficiency cancer.
>>
>> Not shoes?
>>
>
> Shoes that leach Vitamin D from your body are Death! Death! <Cue Scary
> Music>
>
> ;-) <=== Smiley for the very literal who might otherwise have thought I
> was serious . . . .

:-)
>
> Please, doesn't anyone have something to talk about in ASCB besides spam??

I can't help, I'm going to Wales tomorrow. Should have been today but the
weather made it far too risky :-(

Mary

"James Semmel" <feetback@shoebusters.com> wrote in message
news:1169143557.938766.294420@l53g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>
> Mary,
>
> It's not shoes, but they could certainly influence the location of the
> deficiency.
>
> Hugs and kisses!

BLEURCH - don't you know that kisses cause cancer?

Mary

Mary Fisher wrote:

>> Please, doesn't anyone have something to talk about in ASCB besides spam??
>
> I can't help, I'm going to Wales tomorrow. Should have been today but the
> weather made it far too risky :-(
>
> Mary
>
>

Yay, talk about the weather! How very English.

The storm today blew the ridge tiles off the roof of the local carpet
shop. Everywhere I went around the town there were bits of roof debris
in the road. What fun!

Not much fun for those that got killed of course (7 across the UK).


Tim