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Text Messages Might Increase Sunscreen Usage
Sunscreen can help reduce the risk of skin cancer, but people forget to apply it.
Laser therapy can aggravate skin cancer
High irradiances of low-level laser therapy should not be used over melanomas. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer studied the pain relieving, anti-inflammatory 'cold laser', finding that it caused increased tumour growth in a mouse model of skin cancer.
Move may ban teen use of sunbeds
Teenagers could be banned from using sunbeds under proposals unveiled by Health Minister Michael McGimpsey.
Melanoma Institute director to present Phase 2 study data of PV-10 for metastatic melanoma
Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a development-stage oncology and dermatology biopharmaceutical company, announced today that Professor John F. Thompson, MD, Professor of Melanoma and Surgical Oncology at the University of Sydney, Director of the Melanoma Institute Australia, and Lead Investigator of the Phase 2 study of PV-10 for Metastatic ...
Text message reminders can encourage healthy action
People who received daily text messages reminding them to apply sunscreen were nearly twice as likely to use it as those who did not receive such messages, a new study led by a UC Davis Health System dermatologist has found.
Scientists Find 'sibling' Cancer Genes Work Together To Fight Skin Cancer
Main Category: Melanoma / Skin Cancer Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 Cancer Research UK scientists have shown, for the first time, how two genes from the same 'family' can interact with each other to stop cancer in its tracks - according to new findings published in Molecular Cell*. The team of scientists from Cancer ...
Randa the Rhino Battles Skin Cancer at LA Zoo
A 40-year-old rhinoceros at the Los Angeles Zoo is battling skin cancer and she's getting some cutting edge treatment in her fight.
Widespread media coverage has been given to a call for a ban on sunbed use by under-18s. Newspapers said that sunbeds could cause 370 new cases of malignant skin cancer and over 100 deaths a year in the UK.
Age spots striking women in 20s and 30s
If you've noticed more spot on your face lately, it could be a result of too much sun over the summer.
Sunbeds 'significantly increase skin cancer risk among kids'
London, November 13 : Sunbeds are increasingly putting children at risk of skin cancer, according to experts.
Kids Still Use Sunbeds Despite Cancer Risk
More than a quarter of a million children are risking their health by using sunbeds, according to a survey by Cancer Research UK.
Girls as young as 11 face cancer risk from salon sunbeds
Dangers: Kirsty McRae, 14, was admitted to hospital with third degree burns after using a sunbed for 19 minutes Girls as young as 11 are putting themselves at risk of skin cancer by regularly using sunbeds, experts warned yesterday.
County Bans Teens From Tanning Beds
Officials in one Maryland county have voted to ban people under age 18 from using indoor tanning devices , the first such ban in the country, WBAL in Baltimore reported.
Kirsty McRae in hospital after suffering first degress burns after using an unmanned tanning salon
POWERS to ban unsupervised tanning salons in Wales should be immediately sought from Westminster, the Assembly Government was advised today.
Levulan PDT may reduce the rate of recurrence of SCCs in solid organ transplant recipients: Study
The results of an independent investigator study just published in the online version of Dermatologic Surgery demonstrate that Levulan Photodynamic Therapy may reduce the rate of recurrence of squamous cell carcinomas in solid organ transplant recipients , a population with a high incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer.
Dermatologists Can Help Separate Fact From Fiction For Sun Exposure, Sunscreen And Vitamin D
When it comes to vitamin D, consumers are bombarded with mixed messages about the best source for this essential nutrient.
ABRAXANE(R) Receives Orphan Drug Status For The Treatment Of...
Abraxis BioScience, Inc. , a fully integrated biotechnology company, announced that the Office of Orphan Products Development of the Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation to the chemotherapy agent ABRAXANE for Injectable Suspension for the treatment of pancreatic cancer as well as stage IIB-IV melanoma.
Despite an increase in deaths related to skin cancer, the Government spends just $2 million on prevention measures.
Possible Link Between IBD Therapy And Skin Cancer, University of North Carolina Study Reveals
ScienceDaily a ' Findings from a new retrospective cohort study presented at the American College of Gastroenterology's 74th Annual Scientific meeting in San Diego indicate that patients with inflammatory bowel disease , especially those receiving the thiopurine class of medications to treat IBD, may be at risk for developing non-melanoma skin ...
Skin cancer & aging: Elderly patients need special consideration, but same choices
Skin cancers can occur at almost any time during a person's life, but is there a difference between treating a young adult versus an older person? According to one expert, whether caring for skin cancers in elderly patients or young patients, the medical procedures used to treat them are essentially the same.