Are we wired this way?

Mantra,

I had a basal cell cancer on my back too, before breast cancer.

There is support that insufficient Vitamin D3 raises the incidence of epithelial cancers. Cervical, basal and breast cancer are all epithelial cancers, a specific histological origin type. 

Have you had your Vitamin D3 level drawn? Are you taking any vitamin D3? Currently I'm taking 3000 IU's per day. Andrew Weill, a preventive physician, just wrote he now recommends at least 2000 IU's per day.

Best to you,

Tender

I've had precancerous cervical lesions removed, and precancerous skin lesions.  Since I was told they were precancerous, I've never thought of myself as having had "three different types of cancer" -- just the one (IDC).

On the one hand, cervical cancer and precancerous changes are so strongly related to human papillomavirus (HPV) -- and skin cancers to sun exposure -- that in my case I consider these diverse environmental insults the separate causes (not sure what to pin the IDC on, though!).

But the possibility of vitamin D deficiency seems to provide a strong ("missing") link -- as a common explanation for different precancers/cancers in one person.

P.S. Actually, squamous cell skin cancers are also linked to HPV -- not so much basal cell skin cancers -- and there are some associations of HPV and breast cancer!  Since I got HPV at a young age, I'm really scratching my head about this now....

I've wondered this myself. I have also had cell dysplasia show up on my paps, so started me thinking about the possibility of a link. I haven't had any cell problems with my skin, though I expect that to change at any time, given that I am fair skinned and live in a sunny climate. 

  I have had another thought recently as well. My internist was watching my calcium levels closely, as I have had several kidney stones. He is keeping my under surveillance for hyperparathyroidism, which affects calcium in the bloodstream and in your bones. Perhaps it goes hand in hand with Vitamin D and Calcium?

Of course, no one at my hospital seems to think of linkages and they all shake their heads and seem to think I am nuts for wanting to know the root cause of all of this. It drives me crazy that there has been no holistic assessment done on me, nor has any blood been drawn. I am happy that they've found the cancer and are going to treat it, but it just astounds me how "in a vaccuum" our treatments are....