1. Cui Y, Rohan TE. Vitamin D, calcium, and breast cancer risk: a review. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006; 15:1427–1437. PMID:
16896028.
Article
2. Giovannucci E. The epidemiology of vitamin D and cancer incidence and mortality: a review (United States). Cancer Causes Control. 2005; 16:83–95. PMID:
15868450.
Article
3. Ingraham BA, Bragdon B, Nohe A. Molecular basis of the potential of vitamin D to prevent cancer. Curr Med Res Opin. 2008; 24:139–149. PMID:
18034918.
Article
4. Grant WB, Holick MF. Benefits and requirements of vitamin D for optimal health: a review. Altern Med Rev. 2005; 10:94–111. PMID:
15989379.
5. Reichel H, Koeffler HP, Norman AW. The role of the vitamin D endocrine system in health and disease. N Engl J Med. 1989; 320:980–991. PMID:
2648151.
Article
6. Garland FC, Garland CF, Gorham ED, Young JF. Geographic variation in breast cancer mortality in the United States: a hypothesis involving exposure to solar radiation. Prev Med. 1990; 19:614–622. PMID:
2263572.
Article
7. John EM, Schwartz GG, Dreon DM, Koo J. Vitamin D and breast cancer risk: the NHANES I Epidemiologic follow-up study, 1971-1975 to 1992. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 1999; 8:399–406. PMID:
10350434.
8. Freedman DM, Chang SC, Falk RT, Purdue MP, Huang WY, McCarty CA, et al. Serum levels of vitamin D metabolites and breast cancer risk in the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer screening trial. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008; 17:889–894. PMID:
18381472.
Article
9. John EM, Schwartz GG, Koo J, Wang W, Ingles SA. Sun exposure, vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms, and breast cancer risk in a multiethnic population. Am J Epidemiol. 2007; 166:1409–1419. PMID:
17934201.
Article
10. Oza AM, Boyd NF. Mammographic parenchymal patterns: a marker of breast cancer risk. Epidemiol Rev. 1993; 15:196–208. PMID:
8405204.
Article
11. Boyd NF, Lockwood GA, Byng JW, Tritchler DL, Yaffe MJ. Mammographic densities and breast cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 1998; 7:1133–1144. PMID:
9865433.
Article
12. Jakes RW, Duffy SW, Ng FC, Gao F, Ng EH. Mammographic parenchymal patterns and risk of breast cancer at and after a prevalence screen in Singaporean women. Int J Epidemiol. 2000; 29:11–19. PMID:
10750598.
Article
13. Gram IT, Funkhouser E, Tabár L. The Tabár classification of mammographic parenchymal patterns. Eur J Radiol. 1997; 24:131–136. PMID:
9097055.
Article
15. Woo J, Lam CW, Leung J, Lau WY, Lau E, Ling X, et al. Very high rates of vitamin D insufficiency in women of child-bearing age living in Beijing and Hong Kong. Br J Nutr. 2008; 99:1330–1334. PMID:
17961293.
Article
16. Godar DE. UV doses worldwide. Photochem Photobiol. 2005; 81:736–749. PMID:
15819599.
Article
17. Webb AR. Who, what, where and when-influences on cutaneous vitamin D synthesis. Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2006; 92:17–25. PMID:
16766240.
Article
18. McCarty CA. Sunlight exposure assessment: can we accurately assess vitamin D exposure from sunlight questionnaires? Am J Clin Nutr. 2008; 87:1097S–1101S. PMID:
18400741.
Article
19. Knight JA, Lesosky M, Barnett H, Raboud JM, Vieth R. Vitamin D and reduced risk of breast cancer: a population-based case-control study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007; 16:422–429. PMID:
17372236.
Article
20. Gilbert R, Metcalfe C, Oliver SE, Whiteman DC, Bain C, Ness A, et al. Life course sun exposure and risk of prostate cancer: population-based nested case-control study and meta-analysis. Int J Cancer. 2009; 125:1414–1423. PMID:
19444909.
Article
21. Wu SH, Ho SC, Lam T. Validity and reproducibility of the Chinese lifetime sunlight exposure questionnaire. Scientific Report. 2013; In press.
22. Ginsburg OM, Martin LJ, Boyd NF. Mammographic density, lobular involution, and risk of breast cancer. Br J Cancer. 2008; 99:1369–1374. PMID:
18781174.
Article
23. Vieth R. The pharmacology of vitamin D, including fortification strategies. In : Feldman D, Pike JW, Glorieux FH, editors. Vitamin D. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press;2005. p. 995–1015.
24. Holick MF. Environmental factors that influence the cutaneous production of vitamin D. Am J Clin Nutr. 1995; 61(3 Suppl):638S–645S. PMID:
7879731.
Article
25. Webb AR, Pilbeam C, Hanafin N, Holick MF. An evaluation of the relative contributions of exposure to sunlight and of diet to the circulating concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in an elderly nursing home population in Boston. Am J Clin Nutr. 1990; 51:1075–1081. PMID:
2349922.
Article
26. Jacques PF, Felson DT, Tucker KL, Mahnken B, Wilson PW, Rosenberg IH, et al. Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and its determinants in an elderly population sample. Am J Clin Nutr. 1997; 66:929–936. PMID:
9322570.
Article
27. English DR, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Fleming C. Sunlight and cancer. Cancer Causes Control. 1997; 8:271–283. PMID:
9498892.
28. van der Mei IA, Blizzard L, Ponsonby AL, Dwyer T. Validity and reliability of adult recall of past sun exposure in a case-control study of multiple sclerosis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006; 15:1538–1544. PMID:
16896046.
Article
29. van der Rhee HJ, de Vries E, Coebergh JW. Does sunlight prevent cancer? A systematic review. Eur J Cancer. 2006; 42:2222–2232. PMID:
16904314.
Article