Sunlight, vitamin D and skin cancer / edited by Jörg Reichrath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reichrath, J. (Jörg), 1962-

Series:

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 624.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 624

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skin--Cancer.

Skin.

Sunshine.

Vitamin D--Therapeutic use.

Vitamin D.

Skin Neoplasms--prevention & control.

Sunlight.

Vitamin D--therapeutic use.

Medical Subjects:

Skin Neoplasms--prevention & control.

Sunlight.

Vitamin D--therapeutic use.

Physical Description:

xxi, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, [2008]

Contents:

Sunlight, UV-radiation, vitamin D and skin cancer: how much sunlight do we need? / Michael F. Holick

Solar ultraviolet irradiance and cancer incidence and mortality / William B. Grant

Vitamin D status and cancer incidence and mortality / Edward Giovannucci

Sun exposure and cancer survival in Norway: changes in the risk of death with season of diagnosis and latitude / Alina Carmen Porojnicu, Arne Dahlback and Johan Moan

Optimal serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels for multiple health outcomes / Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari

Ultraviolet exposure scenarios: risks of erythema from recommendations on cutaneous vitamin D synthesis / Ann R. Webb and Ola Engelsen

At what time should one go out in the sun? / Johan Moan, Arne Dahlback and Alina Carmen Porojnicu

Epidemiology of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer

the role of sunlight / Ulrike Leiter and Claus Garbe

Ultraviolet radiation and malignant melanoma / Johan Moan, Alina Carmen Porojnicu, and Arne Dahlback

Solar UV exposure and mortality from skin tumors / Marianne Berwick ... [et al.]

Health initiatives for the prevention of skin cancer / Rüdiger Greinert ... [et al.]

Sunscreens / Guido Bens

UV damage and DNA repair in malignant melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer / Knuth Rass and Jörg Reichrath

Role of viruses in the development of squamous cell cancer and melanoma / Ulrich R. Hengge

Melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancers and the immune system / Diana Santo Domingo and Elma D. Baron

Solar UV-radiation, vitamin D and skin cancer surveillance in organ transplant recipients (OTRS) / Jörg Reichrath and Bernd Nürnberg

Histology of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer / Cornelia S.L. Mueller and Jörg Reichrath

Cytogenetics of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer / Melanie A. Carless and Lyn R. Griffiths

Molecular biology of basal and squamous cell carcinomas / Jingwu Xie

Molecular biology of malignant melanoma

Mar Pons ... [et al.]

p53 protein and pathogenesis of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer / Cara L. Benjamin, Vladislava O. Melnikova and Honnavara N. Ananthaswamy

Apoptosis and pathogenesis of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer / Peter Erb ... [et al.]

Treatment of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer / Knuth Rass and Wolfgang Tilgen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780387775739

0387775730

OCLC:

183179548