Sun Damaged Skin
Posted on July 19, 2008 - Filed Under Skin Cancer | Leave a Comment
We’ve all experienced the pain and damage of a sun burn. It doesn’t matter how many times the media explains the risks and the need for UV coverage, a substantial number of people turn a deaf ear and head out into the hot afternoon sun. The result is seriously sun damaged skin and in severe cases even skin cancer. That bronze glow that tanning achieves is short lived. After several years of that kind of abuse the skin becomes leathery and can break out in brown spots. When the sun has virtually sucked your skin dry, no amounts of moisturizer… Continue reading
Read More..>>The Moh’s Procedure
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Skin Cancer | Leave a Comment
How to know what to expect when you’re diagnosed with skin cancer: Explanation of the Moh’s Procedure
If you’ve been diagnosed with skin cancer, don’t panic. Here is an article about what to expect after the diagnosis. It is clear, and honest.
Follow the doctor’s instructions to the letter. He really knows what’s best for you under these circumstances, and there are reasons for every instruction you receive. The instructions given are meant to prepare you for the procedure and to help you heal faster when it’s over.
The Moh’s procedure was developed by Dr. Frederick Mohs. This is the technique that is… Continue reading
Read More..>>Melanoma’s Dramatic Increase - Another Reason to Self Tan
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Skin Cancer | Leave a Comment
Some alarming news from the medical arena was recently rehashed in the news, and it gives just another reason to self tan with sunless tanning products instead of bathing in the sun and/or indoor tanning to get that natural earthy glow that everyone craves these days.
The bad news is that melanoma skin cancer, the most deadly form of cancer of the skin, has increased 50% since the early seventies in women alone. Men have only slightly increased, as expected, and then leveled off, meaning there is some other factor that makes women more susceptible to melanomas than men.
Many researchers think… Continue reading
Read More..>>The Whole Truth About Sunlight, Cancer and Sunscreens
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Skin Cancer | Leave a Comment
Humans have been living on this Earth for at least four million years. The sun has been shining for about 4.6 billion years and it has been shining on our Earth for most of that time. Strangely, no animal ever contracted skin cancer from being out in the sun and humans rarely did until about 50 years ago.
We have been told that this increase in skin cancer is due to a “hole” in the ozone layer. Actually there is no “hole”. However, the ozone layer is thinning in some areas, predominately at the South Pole in the fall and winter… Continue reading
Read More..>>Recognise Skin Cancer
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Skin Cancer | Leave a Comment
The skin cancer is a cancer that features a maligndevelopment on the skin owing to various determinants. Its progress initialises in the epidermis which makes the tumor visible even in the very initial stages. Ongoing researches and studies have concluded skin cancer to be the kind that spreads the fastest.
Amongst the different types, basal cell carcinoma, the squamous cell carcinoma and last but not the last the malignant melanoma are the most common. Off these the later is the most perilous. Though the chief cause is attributed to maximum exposure to the ultravoilet rays a direct relation between the two… Continue reading
Read More..>>Homemade Remedies to Prevent Skin Cancer
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Skin Cancer | Leave a Comment
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer existing in the world. A lot of research and studies have been conducted for discovering and inventing the remedies to prevent for this serious disease.
It is a type of harmful, malignant growth affecting the skin of about one million people in a year in U.S.A. There are several causes such as severe sun burns, long term exposure to Ultra violet rays and a lot of others.
You need to do something about the condition of your skin as soon as you observe some of the warning signs. Some of the indications include… Continue reading
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