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Is melanoma a vitamin d deficient cancer?
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No: Melanoma is a skin cancer due in part to exposure to UV light, including sunlight and in part attributable to hereditary predisposition. Vitamin D deficiency per se is not a known cause of melanoma.
Answered 8/13/2015
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