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SUBMITTER: Donkena KV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3170721 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Donkena Krishna Vanaja KV Young Charles Y F CY
Advances in preventive medicine 20110608
Prostate cancer is the second common cancer in men worldwide. The prevention of prostate cancer remains a challenge to researchers and clinicians. Here, we review the relationship of vitamin D and sunlight to prostate cancer risk. Ultraviolet radiation of the sunlight is the main stimulator for vitamin D production in humans. Vitamin D's antiprostate cancer activities may be involved in the actions through the pathways mediated by vitamin D metabolites, vitamin D metabolizing enzymes, vitamin D ...[more]