Posts Tagged ‘skin cancer’
Device spots melanoma cell by cell
U. MISSOURI (US) — A new photoacoustic device will detect melanoma long before tumors develop, say researchers. Continue…
Monday, January 9, 2012 11:27 - 3 Comments
Health & Medicine - Dec 2, 2011 11:50 - 0 Comments
Gene acts as stop signal for skin cancer
MONASH (AUS) — The discovery of a gene that stops a common form of skin cancer from developing could make new cancer treatments and prevention available to the public in five years, researchers say. (more…)
Top Stories - Oct 25, 2011 9:43 - 0 Comments
Morning tans may cause less skin damage
UNC CHAPEL-HILL (US) — Sunbathing or visiting a tanning booth during the morning hours, rather than afternoon, may lower the risk of skin cancer, new research suggests. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 16, 2011 11:31 - 1 Comment
For sun protection, slather on caffeine?
RUTGERS (US) — Coffee may be more than a great morning pick-me-up. Suntan lotion laden with caffeine might be an effective way to prevent harmful sun damage or skin cancer. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 15, 2011 16:55 - 0 Comments
Zebrafish lead way to melanoma gene
CORNELL (US) — Discovery of a new gene may open a path to advanced drug targets to help treat melanoma, an aggressive skin cancer, responsible for about 8,700 deaths each year. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 22, 2011 8:30 - 0 Comments
Probe goes below skin to flag lesions
U. ROCHESTER (US) — A new optical technology that takes high-resolution images under the skin’s surface may eliminate surgery to detect if lesions are benign or cancerous. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 3, 2011 11:32 - 1 Comment
Skin cancer protection in a pill
U. ROCHESTER (US) —A drug widely used to treat arthritis offers better protection from non-melanoma skin cancers than sunscreen, research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 16, 2010 10:38 - 0 Comments
Shifting melanomas play hide and seek
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Melanoma tumor cells are able to switch various genes on and off, in a stealthy, shape-shifting attempt to avoid researchers seeking new treatments. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 6, 2010 11:34 - 0 Comments
Vacation tanning may raise skin cancer risk
U. LEEDS (UK)—Attempting to get a quick tan during summer vacation—especially after being covered up for most of the rest of the year—is a sure way to raise the risk of melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer that can spread rapidly. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 12, 2010 16:38 - 2 Comments
Is indoor tanning ever safe?
U. MINNESOTA (US)—The largest study of its kind definitively links the use of indoor tanning devices to increased risk of melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 18, 2010 10:27 - 0 Comments
Tan addicts worry about wrinkles, not cancer
NORTHWESTERN (US)—Young women in a recent study were more likely to cut back on indoor tanning based on concerns about getting leathery, wrinkled skin, rather than worries about skin cancer. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 1, 2010 19:09 - 2 Comments
Harmless mole or deadly melanoma?
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—A new scanning system could take most of the guesswork out of screening a suspect skin growth. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 6, 2010 13:24 - 7 Comments
Vitamin D, race, and cardiac deaths
U. ROCHESTER—Vitamin D deficiency may contribute to a higher number of heart and stroke-related deaths among black Americans compared to whites, a new study finds. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 6, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
‘Staging’ key to treating older cancer patients
A new study suggests that older adults diagnosed with cancer—like 92-year-old Louis Falzer, who survived prostate cancer—are more likely to become frail and vulnerable. The findings could be helpful in developing a new staging approach to caring for older adults. (View this and other videos at Futurity’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/futurityvideo)
Health & Medicine - Jun 22, 2009 15:21 - 4 Comments
Sun-damaged patches linked to variety of skin cancers
Rough patches on the skin, known as actinic keratoses, caused by too much exposure to the sun can turn into a greater variety of skin cancers than doctors had thought. (Credit: NASA)
