 [ Symptoms ] am i in trouble with 20 gum bone loss at the age of 45 [ Disease ] the impact of vitamin d on ovarian cancer has not been as well studied but it has been purported to have a protective effect researchers at the channing laboratory associated with harvard university used data from four large studies to examine the effects of vitamin d on ovarian cancer it was determined that blood levels of vitamin d did not directly impact cancer risk from any of the four genotypes however a specific type of the vitamin d receptor gene was significantly tied to ovarian cancer risk