Archive for the 'Skin Cancer' Category

Dermotologists and Skin Cancer

Dermatologists are more likely to find early stage skin cancer than other doctors and thus save more lives. It may be that dermatologists are more skilled at finding small tumors or less likely to brush them off as nothing. Basal cell cancers aren’t always harmless. They are easy to remove but 5 to …

Gardeners: Here’s How to Protect Your Skin From the Sun Naturally

Gardening can reduce your stress levels by helping you get in touch with nature at its most basic level. Who doesn’t feel relaxed when surrounded by so many examples of nature’s handiworks? Unfortunately, gardening can take a toll on skin by day with repeated exposure to ultraviolet light from the s…

Turning up the heat on sunscreen

You may not know this, but sunscreen has been around since the mid 1940s. This product was developed during the height of World War II, when soldiers based out in the Pacific started noticing the dangers of overexposing their skin to the sun. It became widely used in the 1960s. Still, it was onl…

RFID implants under the skin may cause cancer

See those little blips on the picture to the right — the ones amoung the thumb and index finger? Those are RFID (radio frequency identification) chips, some of which are being used as implants into humans for several kinds of tracking functions.

If you have one, though, watch out — those …

High-speed injection coming to fight skin cancer

Talk approximately cancer news that sounds like it comes from the future. In new research, using high-speed liquid injectors to get light-activated cancer-fighting drugs into the body without the need for needles.

Many patients would probably hooray something like that, and without using th…

Addicted to tanning

In a recent column by Dr. Leslie Baumann, Baumann addresses the risks of tanning addiction. According to Baumann, tanning addiction is not ‘just in your head’.

Baumann cites a study where doctors used substance-abuse screening techniques to examine frequent beachgoers and found that by 50 per…

Antioxidants + sun = skin cancer risk

Mixing antioxidants and sun exposure can be dangerous to your health. A new study, published in the September issue of The Journal of Nutrition, details a French study revealing that antioxidant supplements won’t protect women against skin cancer — and they may actually increase the risk of dev…

The differences in skin cancer knowledge among racial lines

Do different races have different outlooks on the opportunity of developing skin cancer? With so many skin pigments among the world’s human races, it would invent sense for darker-skinned citizens to proclaim that they are increasingly protected from skin cancer than from light-skinned individua…