FACT: Vitamin D PREVENTS most cancers and TREATS some cancers. This fact has been known for several years (as of Feb 2012). See Overview Cancer and vitamin D Recently the researchers have been trying to get a consensus as to HOW vitamin D does this. Review of possible ways that vitamin D fights cancer No consensus yet, but candidate methods include:

• arrest of growth
• kill tumour cells
• enhancing DNA repair
• antioxidant protection
• improving immune system

A high percentage of all cancer deaths are prevented by a high enough level of vitamin D in your bloodstream

• CLICK HERE for larger image and more charts of disease incidence

Calcium helps vitamin D fight Cancer:

Calcium aids Vitamin D in fighting some Cancer file

Overview Cancer and vitamin D contains the following chart

Vitamin D does not PREVENT Cancer until the blood level is > 40 nanograms/ml

Appears that vitamin D level must be higher yet to TREAT Cancers.

The many items on Vitamin D and Cancer at VitaminDWiki include:

• Breast - 57 items
• Colon - 43 items
• Prostate 29 items
• Pancreatic 23 items
• Lung 9 items
• After Cancer 22 items
• Melanoma 26 items
• General Cancer and others 87 items
• Overviews of Cancers by Vitamin D Council

See also VitaminDWiki

• Vitamin D also TREATS
• All items in category TREATMENT 33 as of Feb 2012, some of which concern Cancer
• Overview Evidence for vitamin D
• Summary of Vitamin D trials - Grant Jan 2012
• How you might double the benefit of your vitamin D
• No – 10 minutes per day of sun-UVB is NOT enough
• Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic in past 30-40 years
• Free, instant test to see if you are very vitamin D deficient - it is not quantitative
• All items in Vitamin D Blog
• Home Page
• List of categories of vitamin D information - with # of items in each
• Low cost and many forms of vitamin D
• Vitamin D 101