Vitamin D and calcium to prevent melanoma?
A daily supplement of vitamin D plus calcium might help stave off melanoma in people with a history of other skin cancers, a new study reports.
Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine and other institutions analyzed data on more than 36,000 postmenopausal women who participated in the Womens Health Initiative study. Half of the women took a modest dose of vitamin D400 international units, or IUplus 1,000 milligrams of calcium each day. The other half took a placebo.
Overall, the calcium and vitamin D combination didnt reduce the risk of melanomathe deadliest form of skin canceror other skin cancers over the seven years of the study. But when the researchers looked just at women with a history of other forms of skin cancer, including basal cell or squamous cell, they found that those who took the supplements had a lower risk of developing melanoma compared with those who took a placebo.
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