Scientists have been trying to figure out why there's a difference in the United States: African-American men are more likely to get prostate cancer than European men, with a double the risk of dying from the disease.
The reason may be that their skin color causes different vitamin D absorption abilities under the same sunny weather conditions in a country.
According to Medical Xpress, Dr. Moray Campbell, the lead author of the study, said that detailed examination of vitamin D function on the entire male genome showed the mechanism by which vitamin D deficiency is linked to cancer.
Vitamin D supplementation is important for men to prevent prostate cancer (Illustration photo from the Internet)
In addition to helping absorb calcium and improve bone health, this vitamin also helps stimulate cell maturation. Unlike normal cells, cancer cells do not mature and die, but continue to divide and form an abnormal "army".
Lack of vitamin D for cell maturation means that tumor cells continue to multiply out of control.
Therefore, the way to solve this is to keep your body absorbing enough vitamin D, no matter what skin color you have.
Less confinement in your room and having a certain amount of time each day exposed to sunlight, taking vitamin D supplements or eating foods rich in this micronutrient such as oily fish (salmon, tuna, mackerel, cod...), mushrooms, eggs (yolks), dairy products, beans... are suggestions.
The research team said it would continue to examine the link between vitamin D and other cancers, including breast cancer. Prostate cancer and breast cancer are both common cancers in men and women, with a rate of about 1/8 - 1/9 of people of the respective gender, according to statistics from the UK, US...
The new study was published in the journal Cancer Research Communications.
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