Sun exposure apparently has a protective effect against the
development non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), a blood cancer, Australian
researchers report.

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Note from Ilena:  Another reason why "Natural Medicine Equals
Quackery" is but a slogan of fools who preach for the pharmaceutical
industry.

 

Dr. Anne Kricker, of the University of Sydney, and colleagues
investigated the possibility that high sun exposure is associated with
an increased risk of NHL -- and found the opposite -- according the
results of a study published in the International Journal of Cancer.

The team's population-based study involved adults between the ages of
20 and 74 years. In total, 704 cases of NHL and 694 randomly selected
matched controls were enrolled.

The researchers used a questionnaire and a telephone interview to
estimate details of typical sun exposure over as long as 6 decades.
These took into account factors such as working, non-working and
vacation days.

The risk of NHL decreased with increasing hours of sun exposure. With
the highest exposes, the odds of having NHL decreased by 35 percent
compared with the lowest exposure level.

One effect of sunlight is to stimulate the body's production of
vitamin D. The researchers say that "increasing evidence that vitamin
D may protect against cancer makes ultraviolet-mediated synthesis of
vitamin D a plausible mechanism whereby sun exposure might protect
against NHL."

SOURCE: International Journal of Cancer, December 10, 2004.