May 2007 follow up: Is melanoma simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?

TO: All melanoma researchers, doctors, and patients.

The last few months of posts utilized studies from the 1980's to not
only reveal the precise cause of melanoma but also predict its exact
location. In summary, it seems there is a negative feedback loop that
adjusts the amount of vitamin D (cholecalciferol) coming from the skin
depending on the circulating 25D, which is the vitamin D prehormone
produced in the liver. A larger amount of 25D--even from dietary
sources--would decrease D3 production in the skin, and a smaller
amount of 25D would increase D3 production in the skin. If the body
is not getting sufficient D3, then the skin makes an all-out, last-
ditch effort to produce more via uncontrolled skin growth, but if it
still cannot do so, then melanoma spreads throughout the body and
there is a catastrophic failure--just as there should be from a
vitamin D deficiency.

Breast cancer and prostate cancer therefore cannot possibly be vitamin
D deficiency cancers, because melanoma would kill the person first.
(Of course, this conclusion was already evident from merely realizing
that a vitamin D deficiency cancer should be diagnosed in all ages of
both genders, yet breast cancer affects primarily women and prostate
cancer only men.)

I am very interested in further questions or comments about my
discovery that melanoma is a vitamin D deficiency cancer but breast,
prostate, and colon cancers are not. Thank you for carefully
considering these novel ideas.

James Semmel
Albuquerque, New Mexico



reference:
http://www.mpip.org/bb/shtml/380953.shtml
Last month's follow up to the 4th annual discussion: "Is melanoma
simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?"