Smartphone applications designed to help people work out if they have a melanoma are potentially harmful, getting it wrong in up to 30% of cases, according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh…
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Taxpayers will be spending over $700m annually to treat Australia’s most common skin cancers by the year 2015, with over-65s making up the bulk of patients, a new study has found. Non-melanoma skin cancers…
Myths abound about UV radiation and its effect on our health. We hear that sun-protection has triggered an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency; being tanned protects you from sunburn; a tan looks healthy…
SAVING THE OZONE: Part seven in our series exploring on the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer – dubbed “the world’s most successful environmental agreement” – explains how the…
A study that suggests vitamin A could reduce the risk of melanoma should be treated with caution, according to Australian cancer experts who say the results are inconclusive and involve potentially toxic…
A new treatment may prolong the lifespan of melanoma patients. Vemurafenib, the first acute melanoma drug in more than a…
Women with non-melanoma skin cancers are more likely to have smoked cigarettes than women without skin cancer. Study results…
Australian researchers have discovered that about 200,000 Australians carry a mutant gene that increases their melanoma risk…
It’s likely Australia’s sunscreen regulations will change this summer, enabling manufacturers to label their products as SPF50+. The sunscreen industry has championed the proposed change, led by Standards…
An international study published today in Nature Genetics, has discovered two genetic variants that increase the risk of melanoma. Melanoma is not the most common type of skin cancer but it is one of the…
Sun-lovers may one day be able to pop a ‘sunscreen pill’ that uses a compound found in coral to protect skin from harmful UV light, according to UK researchers. Cancer Council Australia has cautiously…
Before she died in September 2007 of melanoma attributed to solarium tanning sessions, 26-year-old Clare Oliver waged a public campaign from her hospital bed to raise awareness of the risks of using sunbeds…
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