Educational Science

Plant Agents Promising in Preventing Skin Cancer

Combinations of plant substances are protective in suppressing damage that can lead to skin cancer, recent research from the University of Texas Health Center in Austin suggests. On the basis of our research, supplements and creams or sunscreens may be developed, tested in humans and then used to prevent skin...

Aspirin May Prevent Melanoma in Women

Aspirin may have another benefit in addition to relieving pain and preventing heart attacks. The common, over-the-counter tablet may also help reduce a woman's risk for melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers found that postmenopausal women who used aspirin two or more times...

Although too much sun exposure throughout life increases the risk of all types of skin cancer, melanoma — the least common, but deadliest type of skin cancer — seems particularly linked to sun exposure early in life, according to a new study. The researchers found that women who had experienced...

HPV May Increase Skin Cancer Risk

Some types of human papillomaviruses, or HPVs, may increase the risk of nonmelanoma skin cancers, a new study finds. A review of blood sample records in Norway and Sweden shows that people infected with a certain group of HPVs that make their home in skin cells were 30 percent more...

Co-Conspirator Cells Contribute to Skin Cancer

Skin cancer is caused when cells grow out of control. But a new study finds there are previously unnoticed cells that help the cancer cells. The discovery of these co-conspirators, as they're being called, could eventually help predict, prevent and perhaps even stop melanoma before it spreads. One in five...

Nail Salon Lamps Don't Raise Skin Cancer Risk

While the risk of developing skin cancer is known to be linked with exposure to ultraviolet light, it's been less clear whether the UV lamps used in nail salons might raise the risk of skin cancer. Now, a new study suggests these lamps don't increase skin cancer risk. In the...

Young Adults Raise Skin Cancer Risk with Sunburns, Indoor Tanning

Young adults are doing things that dangerously increase their risk of skin cancer, according to new reports for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2010, half of all adults ages 18 to 29, and 65 percent of white people in this age group, reported that they were sunburned...

Why Redheads Are at Higher Risk for Melanoma

The same genetic mutation that leads to red hair and fair skin may put redheads at risk for skin cancer, a new study suggests. The results show mutations in a gene called MC1R — which cause red hair, fair skin and poor tanning ability — also set up skin cells...

Coffee-Drinking May Reduce Risk of Skin Cancer

Drinking copious amounts of coffee may reduce the risk of the most common type of skin cancer, a new study finds. Women in the study who drank more than three cups of coffee a day were 20 percent less likely to develop basal cell carcinoma, a slow-growing form of skin...

Melanoma Deaths More Likely in Young Men Than Women

Young men are more likely to die of the skin cancer melanoma than young women, regardless of the severity of the tumor, a new study found. This suggests there are fundamental biological differences between melanoma in men and women, the researchers said. Looking at melanoma cases among a population of...