Skin Cancer News

Idaho Idaho Among Top Ten States with the Highest Rate of New Melanoma Cases Idaho has some of the highest rates of newly diagnosed cases of melanoma and deaths in the United States.

July 2, 2009 -- Sunscreens are improving, but three of five brand-name products either don't protect the skin from sun damage sufficiently, contain hazardous chemicals, or both, according to a report by the watchdog organization Environmental Working Group .

Idaho is at the top of rather infamous list, the list of the top states with skin cancer.

Contrary to popular opinion, a person does not get 80 percent of their lifetime sun exposure by age 18.

Funding for potentially life-saving skin cancer treatment in the Bay of Plenty has been reinstated after the Bay of Plenty Times highlighted the issue last week.

Over two-thirds of people are using sun creams with factors that are too low, according to new research from the Marie Keating Foundation.

Patients could be put at risk as rules allowing GPs to remove cancerous moles are set to be relaxed despite evidence the treatment fails in almost half of cases, experts have warned.

For Dr. Beatrice Wang, summer is a frustrating season. Every day, the Montreal dermatologist watches sun worshippers shed clothes like a chrysalis in spring and slowly bake themselves to a crisp nut brown.

Cosmetic dermatology procedures have dramatically changed the face of dermatology.

Brynessa Gradley's life changed just over a year ago when she scratched an itchy spot on her leg as she came out of the shower.

Sun-worshipping Scots are risking skin cancer by using moisturiser, baby oil and even chip fat instead of protective cream, researchers have said.

As summer activities take Idahoans into the great outdoors, health experts are raising awareness about skin cancer rates.

A foundation founded in memory of the late restaurateur Al Copeland is donating $150,000 to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

SPF numbers are breaking into the triple digits -- a handful of products boast a sun protection factor of 100.

Amid the summer heat, state health officials are urging Missourians to protect themselves from the sun.

We may love the sun, but the sun doesn't love us. Its dangerous UVA and UVB rays help make skin cancer the most common type of cancer, with more than a million cases diagnosed each year.

Research at the University of Leicester will be breaking new ground in the search for a simple blood test that could tell whether a patient with melanoma has the condition in an aggressive form.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Last year I was rejected for life-insurance coverage due to an elevated CEA test.

WHEN Pauline Sibley was told she had skin cancer what should have been one of the happiest times of her life suddenly became the worst.

Even as the temperature crept toward triple digits midday Sunday, Aurora Manangan wasn't about to spend the day in short sleeves.