Indoor Tanning Linked to Skin Cancer

We all know that indoor tanning is dangerous. Check out this case study conducted by the British Medical Journal. Their study found, “these cancers include basal-cell carcinomas and squamous- cell carcinomas, 2 common types on non-melanoma skin cancers. People...

Smoking Linked to Cancer

The American Academy of Dermatology’s recently released an article stating that a study has shown smoking is “associated with a 52 percent increased risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer.” This is another reason why dermatologists...

Lowering Your Risk of Certain Cancers

  According to an article released by MedPage Today , “People who used common nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) had a significantly lower risk of melanoma and squamous-cell skin cancerĀ  and the benefit increased with duration and drug dose,...

Progress in Melanoma Vaccine

The American Academy of Dermatology has reported progress in creating a vaccine against Melanoma. Richard Vile author of Nature Biotechnology says, “We believe that this new techniuqe will help us to identify a whole new set of genes that encode antigens that...