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More than 2% of Melanoma Survivors Still Use Tanning Beds, 27% Skip Sunscreen

Although most survivors of melanoma take precautions to protect their skin from the sun and further occurrences of cancer, data presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) held in Washington, D.C., April 6-10, 2013 revealed that more than a quarter (27%) do not use sunscreen when outside for more than an hour. The same data also shows that more than 2% still use tanning beds.

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Added by Editorial Team on April 8, 2013 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Researchers Discovers Genetic Risk Factor for Skin, Prostate and Brain Cancers

Scientists at deCODE Genetics, a specialist company focused on analyzing and understanding the human genome, and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome associated with risk of developing basal cell carcinoma of the skin (BCC), as well as prostate cancer and glioma, the most serious… Continue

Added by Peter Hofland, PhD on September 25, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments