Topic: Skin Cancer
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-16 19:04:26
<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 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-12-13 23:10:18
<div><p>Australian health officials have devised a novel way to warn beachgoers of the dangers of the sun -- play a jingle to remind them to apply sunscreen.</p><p>As Australians embark on what promises to be another extremely hot summer, the Cancer Council of New South Wales Sunday introduced the ...
isnare | 2009-12-08 22:16:45
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 ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-11-30 10:10:28
<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 ...
