June 2007 monthly follow up: "Is melanoma simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?"

TO: All melanoma researchers, doctors, and patients.


The conception of melanoma as a vitamin D deficiency cancer sheds
light on a number of pieces to the puzzle. To start, we can now see
why melanoma arises in nevi disproportionately more than de novo--in
new skin.

The greater pigmentation absorbs more sunlight and less penetrating
light means less blood flow in that lesion, thus leaving it prone to
developing melanoma whenever circulating vitamin D (25D) is depleted.

How fitting, then, that a nevus is commonly called a mole, as the term
likewise refers to one who works in the dark.

James Semmel
Albuquerque, New Mexico



reference:
http://www.mpip.org/bb/shtml/384496.shtml
Last month's follow up to the 4th annual discussion: "Is melanoma
simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?"