Cancer Medicine

Association of Vitamin D Status With Total and Site-Specific Cancer Mortality From Tropical to Subantarctic Latitudes: A Nationwide Population-Based Study in Chile

By Gonzalo Muñoz, Juan Pablo Fraga, Ignacia S. Núñez-Ulloa, Arturo Borzutzky

Graphical abstract from Cancer Medicine — Graphical abstract. Muñoz et al.

Cross-sectional study of 446,237 peoplePopulations

Declared no competing interests

The paper

Gonzalo Muñoz, Juan Pablo Fraga, Ignacia S. Núñez-Ulloa, Arturo Borzutzky

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Cancer Medicine, 1 Sep 2026

doi.org/10.1002/cam4.72273 PubMed 42754955

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