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HOUSTON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Now that school is out and the first day of summer is upon us, the cancer care experts at Texas Oncology remind Texans to "save your skin" by outsmarting the sun when spending time outdoors. Although the most prevalent cancer in the United States today, skin cancer is also the most preventable. The majority of the more than 1 million annual U.S. cases of skin cancer are sun-related. "The skin is the largest organ in the body and should not be taken for...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with melanomas in the head and neck area have experienced a greater total amount of sun exposure than those who develop the deadly skin cancers in their trunk area, Australian researchers report. The findings lend support to the theory that melanomas on different parts of the body arise through different mechanisms, the researchers note in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Dr. David C. Whiteman of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research and...
By Amy NortonNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who've had common, highly curable forms of skin cancer may face a heightened risk of the deadlier skin tumor melanoma, researchers have found.Their study of more than 67,000 white postmenopausal women found that those with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer were 70 percent more likely than other women to develop melanoma during the study period.That was after factors such as age, family history of cancer and past sun exposure were taken into...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Individuals diagnosed with a first malignant melanoma of the skin have a significantly increased risk of being diagnosed with a second malignant melanoma, according to a report in the current issue of the International Journal of Cancer.Malignant melanoma is a serious form of cancer that usually starts in the skin, either in a mole or in normal-looking skin. The incidence of this cancer is increasing. Most skin cancers occur on areas of the skin that are regularly...
People who receive a kidney transplant are nearly four times more likely than the general population to develop melanoma, a rare but deadly form of skin cancer, according to a study led by Christopher Hollenbeak, Ph.D., associate professor, Departments of Surgery and Health Evaluation Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The study, to be published in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (Nov.1, 2005 issue), indicates...
New research published online by the BMJ today (Thursday 4 August 2005) suggests that melanoma is being overdiagnosed in the United States. The incidence of melanoma of the skin is rising faster than any other major cancer in the United States. In 2002 "“ the most recent year of data - the incidence was about six times that in 1950, but some dermatologists suspect that this rise may reflect more skin biopsies, not more disease. Researchers examined skin biopsy rates between 1986 and 2001...
By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a Mediterranean population typically at low risk for developing melanoma, carriers of mutations in the pigmentation gene MC1R are at increased risk of developing the skin cancer and having it progress, a study hints. This seems to be particularly true for mutation carriers who do not have other strong risk factors for melanoma such as freckles or moles. As Dr. Maria Teresa Landi told Reuters Health, "people with red hair, light skin, many moles...
