Prostate Cancer UVA Rays: what's The Link?

Though the exposure to uva rays from the sun are routinely warned about because of their propensity to cause skin cancer, it seems uvb rays, and vitamin D levels that are obtained by exposure to the sun, can help to slow the rapidity of the progression of prostate cancer tumors. Though all the talk about uva and uvb rays may be confusing and somewhat scary as regards what we normally hear in the news, it seems this finding is interesting in discovering more about the extremely fatal history of prostate cancer UVA rays.

The causes of prostate cancer have, like so many forms of cancer, forever been a mystery. Finding some correlation to diet was often the first thing scientist tried to discover, and yet most evidence on a dietary explanation for high incidence of prostrate cancer was fairly inconclusive, although the lowest rate of prostrate cancer seemed to be found in Japanese men who consisted on a diet mostly of fish.

The findings that point towards a link between prostate cancer UVA rays is are interesting. An insufficient amount of uv exposure is a cause of prostrate cancer according to new reports which are, therefore, quite intriguing. The high levels of prostrate cancer in high-latitude countries such as Canada point towards the possibility of this being true, as the level of exposure to an intense amount of uva and uvb rays is not as likely to occur. Also, the high levels of prostrate cancer in African American men, whose skin contains high levels of melanin which inhibit the absorption of vitamin D from the sun, point towards uva and uvb rays being a inhibitor of prostate cancer.

Once you have prostate cancer, the most common treatment of the disease is usually radiation, which pinpoints the tumor in the prostrate and stops it from continuing to grow. That the uva radiation from the sun may have a similar, preventative effect on prostate cancer is an extremely interesting find, and one that will hopefully lead to a further understanding of the disease. For now, though, understanding that there is a Prostate Cancer UVA link is enough to make you cover up in the sunlight.

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