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Melanoma epidemic: a midsummer night’s dream?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
N.J. Levell, C.C. Beattie*, S. Shuster and D.C. Greenberg* Dermatology Department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich
Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre (ECRIC), Cambridge CB22 3AD, U.K. Correspondence to Nick J. Levell. E-mail: nick.levell@nnuh.nhs.uk Conflicts of interest None declared. KEYWORDS aetiology • incidence • melanoma • stage • ultraviolet ABSTRACT Background The reported incidence of melanoma has greatly increased and this has been attributed to ultraviolet exposure.… continue reading
Health Unit’s view on tanning beds is misleading
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Health Unit’s view on tanning beds is misleading Friday August 14 2009 Recently the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified tanning beds as a Group 1 carcinogenic. Also in this Group 1 classification were arsenic, salted fish, birth control pills, plutonium, red wine and mustard gas.… continue reading
Restrict tanning bed use: P.E.I. doctors
Monday, September 14, 2009
By CBC News CBC News
The Medical Society of P.E.I. wants the provincial health minister to ban the use of artificial tanning equipment for people under the age of 18. Members passed a unanimous motion to that effect on Saturday during the society’s annual general meeting in Stanhope, P.E.I.… continue reading
Radioactive Patch Could Be Option for Skin Malignancies
Monday, September 14, 2009
A nontoxic, radioactive skin patch safely and successfully treated basal cell carcinoma, one of the most common types of skin cancer. “While basal cell carcinoma is rarely fatal, it can be a painful and disfiguring disease,” explained Priyanka Gupta, a nuclear medicine technologist at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi and lead author of the study demonstrating this finding.… continue reading
The Truth About The Recent IARC Report
Monday, September 14, 2009
By Patricia E. Reykdal and Donald L. Smith
http://www.lookingfit.com/articles/the-truth-about-the-recent-iarc-report.html
The damaging and widespread headlines stating that tanning beds are “as deadly as arsenic or mustard gas” actually had nothing to do with the fact that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) changed their classification of tanning devices from Group 2A (presumed to be a human carcinogen) to Group 1 (known to be a human carcinogen).… continue reading
