Vitamin D serum levels and non-melanoma skin cancer risk.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Skin cancer is one of the common malignancies. There is sufficient evidence that sunlight (ultraviolet radiation) contributes to the development of skin cancer, but there is also evidence that relates adequate serum levels of vitamin D produced on the skin by the action of ultraviolet radiation with the decreased risk of various types of cancers, including skin cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of vitamin D serum levels among patients with non-melanoma skin cancers (basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma) and controls.

Methods

A prospective observational case-control study was conducted in a sample of 84 subjects in Extremadura (Spain). Forty-one patients with histologically diagnosed basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell

SUBMITTER: Morgado-Aguila C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8475539 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature