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The Mayo Clinic has reported a dramatic eightfold increase in melanoma rates in young women over the past four decades. Tanning beds are cited as a major culprit.
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Opting for a suntan from a solarium is not a safe option according to researchers who now classify solariums as carcinogenic to humans. New South Wales will be the first Australian state to ban all commercial solariums from the end of 2014.
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A potential breakthrough by U.S. researchers in the fight against cancer, through biomedical research, will soon be offering a cure for cancer patients by keeping the person's cancer cells alive in a lab.
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The body's immune system usually activates beneficially against cancer, but the inflammation that results doesn't help; sildenafil, better known under its trade name, Viagra, neutralized chronic inflammation in mice with melanoma, DKFZ researchers found.
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Researchers announced two new drugs and a combination approach against melanoma that significantly prolonged patient survival, tiny gains that show unprecedented progress against this most dangerous skin cancer, one of the deadliest cancers humans face.
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Researchers at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School identified a gene in zebrafish that appears to be responsible for the development of melanoma in humans.
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Drug manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. received the U. S. stamp of approval on Friday to manufacture and market the first drug medication to extend the lives of patients suffering from melanoma.
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Compounds extracted from green vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage could be a potent drug against melanoma researchers say.
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An aggressive attack ad launched this morning against John McCain’s health, which featured unflattering images of his melanoma scars and demanded the release of his medical records is just a stunt.
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A new study commissioned by the European Commission says that the sunscreen lotion that we used to protect us from the sun is a major contributor to coral bleaching.
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More young adults -- particularly women -- are presenting with cutaneous melanoma, researchers say.
Rising rate of young female patients diagnosed with melanoma.
 As melanoma cases are on the rise among young people, Canadian dermatologists are With melanoma cases on the rise among young people, Canadian dermatologists are advising people to slap on sunscreen after shedding winter layers.
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The first personalised treatment to extend life of advanced melanoma patients given just months to live, has been...
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Cancer can be affected in many forms and some common types of cancer are; Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Melanoma,...
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