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| Sharif B MohrSummaryAffiliation: Naval Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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A brief history of vitamin d and cancer preventionSharif B Mohr
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0631, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:79-83. 2009..To review the history of vitamin D and its use in cancer prevention...- Ultraviolet B and incidence rates of leukemia worldwideSharif B Mohr
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 92093 0631, USA
Am J Prev Med 41:68-74. 2011..Recent research has suggested a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and risk of leukemia... - Ultraviolet B irradiance and incidence rates of bladder cancer in 174 countriesSharif B Mohr
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0631, USA
Am J Prev Med 38:296-302. 2010..Although nearly half of bladder cancer cases are due to smoking, the cause of nearly half is unexplained... 
Optimal vitamin D status for colorectal cancer prevention: a quantitative meta analysisEdward D Gorham
University of California San Diego, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:210-6. 2007..Previous studies, such as the Women's Health Initiative, have shown that a low dose of vitamin D did not protect against colorectal cancer, yet a meta-analysis indicates that a higher dose may reduce its incidence...- Vitamin D and prevention of breast cancer: pooled analysisCedric F Garland
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 103:708-11. 2007.... - Low ultraviolet B and increased risk of brain cancer: an ecological study of 175 countriesSharif B Mohr
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0620, USA
Neuroepidemiology 35:281-90. 2010..The purpose of this study was to determine whether an inverse association exists between latitude, solar ultraviolet B (UVB) irradiance, modeled 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and incidence rates of cancer of the brain... - Relationship between low ultraviolet B irradiance and higher breast cancer risk in 107 countriesSharif B Mohr
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0631, USA
Breast J 14:255-60. 2008..81 (p < 0.0001). There was a protective effect of UVB irradiance on risk of breast cancer that was independent of fertility rate, proportion of the population overweight, alcohol intake, animal energy intake, and other covariates... - Role of ultraviolet B irradiance and vitamin D in prevention of ovarian cancerCedric F Garland
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0631, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:512-4. 2006..This suggests that lower levels of solar irradiance might be associated with higher risk of ovarian cancer. Laboratory findings also suggest that low levels of vitamin D metabolites could play a role in the etiology of ovarian cancer... - Is ultraviolet B irradiance inversely associated with incidence rates of endometrial cancer: an ecological study of 107 countriesSharif B Mohr
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine 0631C, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA, USA
Prev Med 45:327-31. 2007.... - What is the dose-response relationship between vitamin D and cancer risk?Cedric F Garland
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Nutr Rev 65:S91-5. 2007 - Vitamin D for cancer prevention: global perspectiveCedric F Garland
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:468-83. 2009..Higher serum levels of the main circulating form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), are associated with substantially lower incidence rates of colon, breast, ovarian, renal, pancreatic, aggressive prostate and other cancers... - Do sunscreens increase risk of melanoma in populations residing at higher latitudes?Edward D Gorham
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0613C, La Jolla, CA 92093 0631, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:956-63. 2007..Sunscreens may allow overexposure to ultraviolet A (UVA) in fair-skinned persons and prevent symptoms of sunburn, but their benefits for the prevention of melanoma are uncertain... - Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and prevention of breast cancer: pooled analysisSharif B Mohr
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0620, La Jolla, CA 92093 0620, USA
Anticancer Res 31:2939-48. 2011..Since publication of the most current meta-analysis of 25(OH)D and breast cancer risk, two new nested case-control studies have emerged... - Are low ultraviolet B and high animal protein intake associated with risk of renal cancer?Sharif B Mohr
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 119:2705-9. 2006..0001) were positively associated (R(2) = 0.68, p < 0.0001). Lower levels of UVB irradiance and higher intakes of calories from animal sources were independently associated with higher incidence rates of kidney cancer... 
The role of vitamin D in cancer preventionCedric F Garland
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, 0631C, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0631, USA
Am J Public Health 96:252-61. 2006..The evidence suggests that efforts to improve vitamin D status, for example by vitamin D supplementation, could reduce cancer incidence and mortality at low cost, with few or no adverse effects...