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Short Communication

Open Letter to IARC Director Christopher P. Wild: Re IARC Working Group Report 5—Vitamin D and Cancer

Cedric F. Garland, William B. Grant, Barbara J. Boucher, Heide S. Cross, Frank C. Garland, Oliver Gillie, Edward D. Gorham, Robert P. Heaney, Michael F. Holick, Bruce W. Hollis, Johan E. Moan, Meinrad Peterlik, Jörg Reichrath and Armin Zittermann

Open Letter to IARC Director Christopher P. Wild: Re IARC Working Group Report 5—Vitamin D and Cancer for consideration for publication in Dermato-Endocrinology.  This letter has undergone considerable review by several of the coauthors and has been read and approved by all signatories.

Authors

Cedric F. Garland

Department of Family and Preventive Medicine; University of California San Diego; La Jolla, California USA

William B. Grant Corresponding author: wbgrant@infionline.net

Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center (SUNARC)

Barbara J. Boucher

Centre for Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine; Bart’s and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry; Queen Mary University of London, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science; London, UK

Heide S. Cross

Medical University of Vienna; Vienna, Austria

Frank C. Garland

Department of Family and Preventive Medicine; University of California San Diego; La Jolla, California USA

Oliver Gillie

Health Research Forum; London, UK

Edward D. Gorham

Department of Family and Preventive Medicine; University of California San Diego; La Jolla, California USA

Robert P. Heaney

John A. Creighton University; Omaha, Nebraska USA

Michael F. Holick

7Department of Medicine; Section of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Diabetes; Vitamin D, Skin and Bone Research Laboratory; Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA U.S.A.

Bruce W. Hollis

Department of Pediatrics; Medical University of South Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina USA

Johan E. Moan

Department of Radiation Biology; Institute for Cancer Research; Oslo, Norway

Meinrad Peterlik

Department of Pathophysiology; Medical University Vienna; Viena, Austria

Jörg Reichrath

Department of Dermatology, The Saarland University Hospital, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany

Armin Zittermann

Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery; Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia; Bad Oeynhausen, Germany