Skin Cancer Symptoms and Treatment

Combination Therapy Promising for Melanoma Treatment

Recent research by the National Cancer Institute says that more women are being diagnosed with the most dangerous form of skin cancer melanoma. Too much sun exposure and lack of safe sunscreens contribute extensively in the sharp increase of Melanoma. While everyone is recommended to have reasonable amount of sun exposure (here you need to [...]

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Cases Of Melanoma Skin Cancer Sharply Increased in Young Women

Melanoma cases of skin cancer increased by 50% in younger women, urging the need of more educational campaigns for younger people to help them understand how dangerous skin cancer is and what to do to protect themselves from the disease. A team of researchers from National Cancer Institute examined data from government cancer statistics for [...]

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The Activity Of Mebendazole In Metastatic Melanoma

There is new hope for the treatment of chemotherapy-resistant malignant melanoma. Novel assay finds that widely prescribed anti-parasite drug targets cancer-causing protein. Researchers at the NYU Cancer Institute and the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology have identified mebendazole, a drug used globally to treat parasitic infections, as a novel investigational agent for the treatment [...]

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Oregon In Top Six States With Highest Rates Of Skin Cancer

According to a new report issued by Multnomah County Health Department, “Skin Cancer,” Oregon has one of the highest incidence rates in the U.S. of melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, along with Washington, Idaho, Utah, New Hampshire and Vermont. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. [...]

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Can Eggplant Cure Skin Cancer?

There is new hope for skin cancer treatment, says internationally known scientist in his book The Eggplant Cancer Cure. 70,000 Australians can’t be wrong! Yet that is the number of patients over many years of studies Dr. Bill E. Cham. Ph.D. claims have been cured of skin cancer using the breakthrough treatment documented in his [...]

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Skin Cancer ‘Smells,’ Can Help Early Detection

Researchers have found that skin cancer has its own ‘odor profile’, which is easy to differ from a healthy skin profile. The finding comes from Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia and will open doors for a new noninvasive way of diagnosing skin cancer quickly, easily, painlessly. The only approved way for diagnosis of skin [...]

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Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Patients At High Risk Of Other Cancers

Those patients that are affected by non-melanoma skin cancer are more likely to develop other types of cancers later in life. Non-melanoma is a non-fatal form of skin cancer. It is known to increase the melanoma risk, but it has never been linked to other types of cancers than skin cancer. A team of researchers [...]

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Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Linked To Other Cancers Too

Individuals with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) are at increased risk for other cancers, according to a study published in the August 26 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Previous studies have documented that people who have had non-melanoma skin cancer were at increased risk for developing melanoma, but [...]

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Variant of vitamin D receptor gene linked to melanoma risk

A new analysis indicates an association between a gene involved in vitamin D metabolism and skin cancer. Published in the November 1, 2008 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that individuals with certain variants in a vitamin D-related gene, called BsmI, may be at an increased risk [...]

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Molecule Fights Malignant Melanoma Skin Cancer From Two Sides

A single ‘designer molecule’ tackles malignantmelanoma skin cancer cells by two completely different routes. By playing it safe and using a two-pronged attack, a novel designer molecule fights skin cancer malignant melanoma. It was created and tested by an international team of researchers led by the University of Bonn. On the one hand, the substance [...]

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Stop Skin Cancer On The Spot

Based on current estimates, 8,420 people are expected to die from melanoma this year. In an effort to reverse this sobering trend, dermatologists and the scientific community alike are continually developing new diagnostics, refining detection guidelines and providing patients with the tools they need to properly examine their own skin for signs of skin cancer. [...]

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GUMC researchers find gene function ‘lost’ in melanoma and glioblastoma

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found a gene they say is inactivated in two aggressive cancers – malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer, and glioblastoma multiforme, a lethal brain tumor. They add that because this gene, known as PTPRD, has recently been found to be inactivated in several other cancers as well, [...]

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