Can sun exposure help prevent cancer?

[Ivan Seeking]

...No one is suggesting that people fry on a beach. But many scientists believe that "safe sun" - 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen - is not only possible but helpful to health.

One is Dr. Edward Giovannucci, a Harvard University professor of medicine and nutrition who laid out his case in a keynote lecture at a recent American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

His research suggests that vitamin D might help prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer. [continued]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050521/D8A7MPFG0.html

 

[kalladin]

I don't remember what I was watching.. but I think it was a show on discovery. The man claimed to cure his cancer by taking higher than normal doses of vitamin D..