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Sunlight, Vitamin D and Skin Cancer

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    Chapter 1 Sunlight, UV-radiation, vitamin D and skin cancer: how much sunlight do we need?
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    Chapter 2 Solar ultraviolet irradiance and cancer incidence and mortality.
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    Chapter 3 Vitamin D status and cancer incidence and mortality.
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    Chapter 4 Sun exposure and cancer survival in Norway: changes in the risk of death with season of diagnosis and latitude.
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    Chapter 5 Optimal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels for multiple health outcomes.
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    Chapter 6 Ultraviolet exposure scenarios: risks of erythema from recommendations on cutaneous vitamin D synthesis.
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    Chapter 7 At What Time Should One Go Out in the Sun?
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    Chapter 8 Epidemiology of Melanoma and Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer—The Role of Sunlight
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    Chapter 9 Ultraviolet radiation and malignant melanoma.
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    Chapter 10 Solar UV exposure and mortality from skin tumors.
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    Chapter 11 Health Initiatives for the Prevention of Skin Cancer
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    Chapter 12 Sunscreens.
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    Chapter 13 UV damage and DNA repair in malignant melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer.
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    Chapter 14 Role of viruses in the development of squamous cell cancer and melanoma.
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    Chapter 15 Melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancers and the immune system.
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    Chapter 16 Solar UV-radiation, vitamin D and skin cancer surveillance in organ transplant recipients (OTRs).
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    Chapter 17 Histology of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer.
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    Chapter 18 Sunlight, Vitamin D and Skin Cancer
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    Chapter 19 Molecular biology of basal and squamous cell carcinomas.
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    Chapter 20 Molecular biology of malignant melanoma.
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    Chapter 21 P53 protein and pathogenesis of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer.
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    Chapter 22 Apoptosis and pathogenesis of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer.
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    Chapter 23 Treatment of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer.
Attention for Chapter 2: Solar ultraviolet irradiance and cancer incidence and mortality.
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Chapter title
Solar ultraviolet irradiance and cancer incidence and mortality.
Chapter number 2
Book title
Sunlight, Vitamin D and Skin Cancer
Published in
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2008
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-77574-6_2
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Book ISBNs
978-0-387-77573-9, 978-0-387-77574-6
Authors

William B. Grant, Grant, William B.

Editors

Jörg Reichrath

Abstract

Evidence supporting the UVB/vitamin D/cancer theory continues to mount with little detraction, although there are some inconsistent results, such as some from Nordic countries, with respect to serum calcidiol levels. Also, studies designed and conducted before it was realized that dietary sources are largely inadequate to have a pronounced effect on cancer risk were largely unable to confirm a beneficial role for vitamin D in reducing the risk of cancer. The analysis of the economic burden of solar UVB irradiance and vitamin D deficiencies compared to excess solar UV irradiance for the United States yielded interesting findings. One was that the US economic burden due to vitamin D insufficiency from inadequate exposure to solar UVB irradiance, diet and supplements was estimated at $40 billion to $56 billion in 2004, whereas the economic burden for excess UV irradiance was estimated at $6 billion to $7 billion. These findings are probably still approximately correct, if not on the low side, with respect to vitamin D because of the additional benefits found recently, such as protection against infectious diseases.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 5%
Unknown 21 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 6 27%
Researcher 4 18%
Other 3 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 2 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 36%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 14%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 9%
Environmental Science 1 5%
Mathematics 1 5%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 5 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 July 2023.
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#6,398,331
of 23,946,503 outputs
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#980
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#35,277
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#13
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