Increasing Sun Exposure Is Not The Way To to Decrease BCr Risk, Say Yale Experts

[Hopeful]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/107077.php

Hopeful

[AlaskaAngel]

The issue is raised by dermatology specialists and not breast cancer specialists, but still may have merit.

However, consider this part:

"One recent U.S. study actually measured blood vitamin D levels in individual women and found that women with higher blood vitamin D levels did not have significantly lower risk of subsequent breast cancer," explained Susan Mayne, Director of Population Sciences at Yale Cancer Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health."

If one is simply taking pills and increasing vitamin D levels and not getting reasonable amounts of natural sun exposure it may NOT be helpful. One aspect related to that is that certain light entering the eye affects the pineal gland, which then causes changes in the production of melatonin -- which has been documented to have an effect on breast cancer.

As humans, those who live in cold climates spend far more time indoors than humans did in earlier times. Getting regular and moderate exposure to the sunshine may be an important way to gain protection from breast cancer.

AlaskaAngel

[lizm100]

When you look at some of the studies of what to do to prevent breastcancer and what contributes to breast cancer you have to take the information with a grain of salt and use common sense to live a healthy life style. I beleive in supplemenation in addition to a healthy diet/lifestyle but sometimes it doesn't seem to be enough. When first diagnosed with BC, I ran down the long list of do's and don't's, I was doing everything right and still got breast cancer with no family history of it. In regards to articles on vitamin "D" I have been taking calcium with vit D for many many years in addition to being a sunbather since childhood. I love the outdoors! As a result, I was diagnosed with skin cancer on my scalp ( I usally wear some type of hat when ourdoors for longer than a few minutes) a few weeks ago and had mohs surgery last week to have it removed. This surgery hurt more than my lumpectomy and re-excision did. Fortunately this skin cancer was the superfical basal cell carcinoma with is supposed? to have a high cure rate (atleast that's what the doctor's told me..I hope their right..) with the mohs surgery. Just thought that I would share my experience....
Liz