date:Apr 02, 2013
A new study in Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology suggests that vitamin D can help protect against virus-induced cancers such as Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) in this case.
Vitamin D has been proved to be important for the innate immunity and it helps produce antibacterial peptides which kill pathogenic bacteria and viruses. That is why vitamin D can help prevent infections and likely virus induced tumors or cancers.
The current study led by Samimi Mahtab from INRA