UV radiation and cancer prevention: What is the evidence?

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4 A, 2006, Pages 2723-2727

  Krause, Rolfdieter ^a,c   Matulla Nolte, B ^a   Essers, M ^a   Brown, A ^a   Hopfenmuller W ^b  

^a Department Natural Medicine   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Immanuel Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Organ cancer; Review meta analysis; Sunlight exposure; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VITAMIN D;

EID: 33746638480     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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