{"id":9127,"date":"2026-10-16T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:03:31","slug":"citrus-fruits-and-melanoma-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/citrus-fruits-and-melanoma-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrus fruits and melanoma risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers found that the more servings of oranges, grapefruits or juices from these fruits that the participants consumed overall, the higher their risk of melanoma. Subjects who consumed a serving of these fruits or their juices at least 1.6 times a day, for example, were found to be at 36% higher melanoma risk.\u00a0It may be because the fruits are rich in psoralens and furocoumarins, which are believed to make the skin more sensitive to the sun.\u00a0&#8220;These substances are potential carcinogens, as found in both mice and humans. Psoralens and furocoumarins interact with UV light to stimulate melanoma cells to proliferate,&#8221; explains Dr. Marianne Berwick, of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, in an editorial linked to the study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jco.ascopubs.org\/content\/early\/2015\/06\/24\/JCO.2014.57.4111.abstract?sid=1b14ea40-957d-4428-9ca2-e25dacef7a84\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers found that the more servings of oranges, grapefruits or juices from these fruits that the participants consumed overall, the higher their risk of melanoma. Subjects who consumed a serving of these fruits or their juices at least 1.6 times a day, for example, were found to be at 36% higher melanoma risk.\u00a0It may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[772,774,320,773],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notizie","tag-citrus-fruits","tag-grapefruit","tag-melanoma","tag-orange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9132,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions\/9132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}