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 | 1 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
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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
Read More..>>What is Skin Cancer?
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Skin Cancer | 1 Comment
The bad news is that there are more diagnosed cases of skin cancer every year than any other kind of cancer. The good news is that there are very, very few deaths attributed to this disease.
Skin cancer is the most treatable of all types, and the results of treatment are almost always positive. This year, there are expected to be a million new cases of skin cancer diagnosed, but only 1,000 deaths are expected that are caused by the disease. So you can see that even if you are diagnosed with skin cancer, your odds are 1,000 to 1 that… Continue reading
Read More..>>Skin Cancer Prevention
Posted on July 6, 2008 - Filed Under Skin Cancer | Leave a Comment
The number one cause of skin cancer is overexposure to ultraviolet light (the sun). The number one way to prevent skin cancer is to reduce exposure to ultraviolet light. Eliminating it entirely would be better, but we really can’t do that, and some sunlight is good for us - even necessary. Having darkly tanned skin is a symbol of health, vitality, and youthfulness today, but it is a very dangerous symbol to acquire unless you take sun-safety measures, and you use those sun-safety methods every single time you are outdoors.
There is a catchy saying that is often used to help… Continue reading
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