Whether Vitamin D Can Prevent Cancer or Not: Recent Research Progress in Vitamin D and Major Cancers

Abstract

Vitamin D has been widely used as a supplementary component in food and drinks, for it helps human body utilize calcium and phosphorus to make stronger bones and teeth. Both nutrition and skin exposure to sunshine can make vitamin D. Scientists have been investigated the relationship between vitamin D and cancers. So far, certain evidences have been reported showing vitamin D helps curing or reduces the death rate of colon cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer. In this paper we have reviewed recent progress of research in these fields and provide advice for future investigation.

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“…Furthermore, more cases of type 1 diabetes were diagnosed in winter where sunlight is minimal. This trend is similar to what was found for people with less vitamin D 3 synthesis by their skin cells where exposure to sunlight radiation was at reduced amount and higher incidence of cancer, for example [18,19] . From a genetic perspective, certain mutations or disruption of DNA nucleotide base pairs [20] , for example, single-nucleotide polymorphism in the gene encoding lymphoid protein tyrosine phosphatase (an enzyme found to attenuate T-cell activation) [21] are associated with type 1 diabetes.…”

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“…The structure of the Vitamin D family is shown in Fig. 1 (Wang et al, 2016;Wolf, 2004). Vitamin D is converted in the human body to an active form and circulated as .…”