Monitoring vitamin D in the patient with melanoma: impact of sun avoidance on vitamin D levels of patients with melanoma at a U.K. tertiary-referral melanoma service

Br J Dermatol. 2017 Jul;177(1):282-283. doi: 10.1111/bjd.15062. Epub 2017 Jun 5.

Authors

M C I Lo¹, J Maraka¹, J Garioch^{2

3}, W G John^{3

4}, M Moncrieff^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UY, U.K.
² Department of Dermatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UY, U.K.
³ Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
⁴ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UY, U.K.

PMID: 27639181
DOI: 10.1111/bjd.15062

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
England / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Incidence
Male
Melanoma / blood
Melanoma / epidemiology*
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
Skin Neoplasms / blood
Skin Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Sunlight*
Vitamin D / analogs & derivatives*
Vitamin D / metabolism
Vitamin D Deficiency / diagnosis*
Vitamin D Deficiency / epidemiology
Young Adult

Substances

Vitamin D
25-hydroxyvitamin D