Table 1.

Sixteen vitamin D-sensitive cancers determined by ecologic and cohort studies by geopolitical region

Cancer	North america	North america cohort	Europe	Asia	Multicontinent
Esophageal	22, 23, 10, 24	25	26	27, 28
Gastric	22, 23, 10, 24	25*	26	27, 28	29*
Colon	1, 22, 30, 23, 10, 24	25	31, 32, 26	27, 28*	33, 29*
Rectal	22, 23, 10, 24	25	31, 26	27, 28*	29*
Gallbladder	10, 24		26	27
Pancreatic	22, 10, 24	25	31, 26	34, 27, 35	29*
Lung	22, 23	36, 25*	37, 38	28*	29, 39
Breast	4, 22, 30, 23, 10, 24		9, 31, 32, 26, 40
Uterine corpus	22, 10, 24				41
Ovarian	5, 22, 30, 10, 24		31, 26		33, 42, 29*
Vulvar	24, 43
Prostate	6, 22, 30, 10, 24	25*	31, 32		29
Bladder	22, 10, 24	25*			29*
Renal	22, 10, 24	25*			33, 44, 29*
Hodgkin's lymphoma	10, 24		45, 46, 26
NHL	22, 47, 10, 24	25*	31, 46, 26		33

^*Marginally insignificant. References are indicated by numbers.