Melanoma risk higher in Parkinson's patients

2010-03-08T14:00:11Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with Parkinson's disease face an increased risk of the most deadly type of skin cancer, new research confirms.</p><p>Exams of more than 2,000 people with Parkinson's disease found that about 1 percent currently had melanoma, Dr. John M. Bertoni of the

Indoor Tanning Association Settles Skin Cancer Case

2010-02-22T13:38:32Z

<div id="subtitle">FTC charges group lied about skin cancer risks from tanning</div><div><p>The Indoor Tanning Association has agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding health and safety claims about indoor tanning.</p>&l...

What Are the Different Types of Skin Cancer? What Are the Causes, Symptoms and Treatments?

2010-02-22T14:14:23Z

Skin cancer, although it appears small can be quite deadly if it's not caught on time. As for how it grows, the cancer develops when DNA is damaged beyond repair. The cells that are damaged then develop and split at a rate that is. Uncontrollable when this damage happens in the skin and the cells grow and separate uncontrollably, skin cancer is the result. The damaged cells will continue to multiply and that will cause a tumor.<br><br>The cancer generally develops ...

FDA debates tougher cancer warning on tanning beds

2010-02-22T18:15:50Z

<div><p>Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk.</p><p>Yes, sunburns are particularly dangerous. But there's increasing scientific consensus that there's no such thing as a safe tan, either.</p><...

Children face sunbed ban in England and Wales

2010-02-22T21:07:10Z

<div><p>Under-18s in England and Wales could be banned from using sunbeds in tanning salons because of the risk of cancer under government-backed proposals announced Wednesday.</p><p>Cancer Research UK says people who first use a sunbed under the age of 35 increase their risk of developing skin cancer later by 75 percent.</p&...

Pfizer enters melanoma partnership with Debiopharm

2010-02-23T00:08:42Z

<div id="subtitle">Pfizer says Debiopharm will run a new late-stage study of melanoma drug tremelimumab</div><div><p>Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it is reviving development of its melanoma drug tremelimumab through a collaboration with Swiss drugmaker Debiopharm Group.</p><p>Financial terms of the deal wer...

Check-Ups Every Guy Needs

2010-02-23T14:55:53Z

<div><p>Chances are you get your car tuned regularly, never skip an oil change, and keep it buffed and polished till it sparkles. But are you taking such good care of yourself?</p><p>"Our busy lives and work schedules often prevent us from seeking routine preventive care," says Robert W. Brenner, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Founder of the Preventive Medicine Program at New Jersey...

Scientists crack gene code of common cancers

2010-02-23T14:58:00Z

<div><p>Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time, British scientists announced, in a major breakthrough in understanding the diseases.</p><p>The maps have exposed the DNA mutations that lead to skin and lung cancers, in a discovery scientists said could transform the way these diseases are diagnosed and treated in coming years.</p><p>All cancers are caused by damage to genes -- m...

Gene maps to transform scientists' work on cancer

2010-02-23T15:10:15Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have indentified all the changes in cells of two deadly cancers to produce the first entire cancer gene maps and say the findings mark a "transforming moment" in their understanding of the disease.</p><p>The studies by international scientists and Britain's Cancer Council of New South Wales Sunday introduced the five-second musical ditty to convince people to abandon t...

Can Vitamin D Help You Survive Melanoma?

2010-02-23T18:47:13Z

Recent research has given hope to melanoma patients: vitamin D can help you survive this very serious disease. Studies have shown that those melanoma patients with high amounts of vitamin D in their bloodstreams were up to 30 percent more likely to survive.<br><br>Vitamin D is produced by the body when sunlight strikes the skin. Although too much sunlight raises the risk of skin cancers, higher levels of vitamin D translate to less severe lesions in melanoma. There...

Kangaroos may hold skin cancer cure: study

2010-02-23T23:05:44Z

<div><p>Kangaroos may provide the key to a potential treatment to prevent skin cancer, Australian scientists said on Monday.</p><p>Researchers at Melbourne University are investigating whether a DNA repair enzyme found in the jumping marsupials could provide a model for preventing DNA damage linked to many skin cancers in humans.</p><p>...

Kangaroos may hold key to preventing skin cancer: study

2010-02-23T23:06:56Z

<div><p>SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Understanding how kangaroos repair their DNA could be the key to preventing skin cancer, according to Australian and Austrian researchers.</p><p>The teams are investigating a DNA repair enzyme found in kangaroos and many other organisms, but not humans, that is very effective in fixing a particular type of damage linked to many skin cancers.&a...

Skin Cancer Action Week Begins In Sydney

2009-11-14T19:17:05Z

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 15: An aerial photo shows 1700 beach towels which were laid out during a Skin Cancer Action Week event on Bondi Beach on November 15, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. The event, organised by the Cancer Council, involved displaying a towel for each of the 1,700 Australians who die as a result of skin canc...

Sunbed use puts 250,000 kids at risk of cancer

2010-02-24T06:02:37Z

<div><p>A quarter of a million children in England aged 11 to 17 face a higher risk of developing malignant skin cancer by using tanning beds, researchers said on Friday.</p><p>Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the researchers called for urgent legislation to stop sunbed use by minors in E...

Sunbeds: 250,000 English kids at risk of cancer

2010-02-24T06:11:25Z

<div><p>A quarter of a million children in England aged 11 to 17 face a higher risk of developing malignant skin cancer by using tanning beds, researchers said Friday.</p><p>Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the researchers called for urgent legislation to stop sunbed use by minors in England, as is already the case for Reuters Health) - People with a history of skin cancer may want to cut back on the amount of fat they eat to reduce their risk of a second skin cancer, based on study findings from Australia.</p><p>The findings link high intakes of total fat to increased risk of developing a type of skin cancer called squamou...

HHS secretary has minor skin cancer removed

2010-02-24T16:07:25Z

<div id="subtitle">HHS secretary sports bandage, puffy eye after easily curable skin cancer removed from forehead</div><div><p>The office of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) says she had a slow-growing form of skin cancer removed from her forehead Tuesday.</p><p>The spot was a basal cell carcinoma, the most com...

Skin cancer can be inherited: studies

2010-02-24T20:46:17Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Want to reduce your risk of skin cancer? Wear sun screen, of course. But two new studies suggest that choosing your relatives carefully could also be helpful.</p><p>One found that having an identical twin with melanoma increased a person's own risk of developing the disease much more than having a fraternal twin with this type of skin cance...

FDA panel backs Schering-Plough cancer drug

2010-02-24T22:41:46Z

<div id="subtitle">FDA panel narrowly backs Schering-Plough's PegIntron as a skin cancer medication</div><div><p>Federal health advisers voted 6-4 on Monday that the potential benefits of a Schering-Plough drug outweigh its toxic risks as a treatment for late-stage skin cancer.</p><p&...

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