No one wants to get skin cancer and yet it is becoming more and more common in our population. If treated early before it starts spreading. The more fair skinned you are the bigger your risk of getting skin cancer. Melanomas is most common with folks living in Australia and India, while basal and squamous [...]
Skin cancer is a very real risk for folks over 50 years old and it is a lot more common than you might think. There is more than one type of skin cancer to be on alert for and all skin cancers must be taken seriously and treated as soon as possible. Although everyone is [...]
Skin cancer has three major forms. All of these are known, at least in part, to be caused by exposure to sunlight. The skin cells’ genetic operations can be disrupted by the ultraviolet radiation from sunlight, the possible consequence of which is the development of precancerous and cancerous cells. Basal cell carcinoma (also known as [...]
What is skin cancer? Let’s talk about this today because whenever we mention the word ‘cancer’ a fear comes over us and we panic or are scared to pieces of the end results. There are 2 positive aspects to skin cancer and that is that it develops outside of our bodies and we can take [...]
Are you at risk for developing skin cancer? Although more widely publicized than ever before, the average person seems to feel immune from the consequences of sun exposure. The skin cancer charts graphs illustrate just how prevalent this condition is and reflect the various categories of skin cancer. You can also see examples of the [...]
If you have been reading newspaper or listening to news regularly over the past few years, you should have come across several warnings telling us to protect ourselves from skin cancer. Whilst there are many who do pay attention to these cautions, a shocking count of women still ignores them. If you are amongst those [...]
Not all moles are precancerous and not all moles look like melanoma, skin cancer. If you want to know, “What does a cancerous mole look like?”, then you need to know what normal moles look like first. The scientific term for moles is nevi. A normal mole is symmetrical. That means that if you folded [...]
Skin cancer is on the rise around the world and it doesn’t care how much money you make. Although scientists are not entirely clear why more people are getting skin cancer than ever before, it’s thought that climate change may play some part. The ozone layer cannot block harmful UV rays from the sun as [...]
The question about whether any sort of sun tan is safe is one that’s asked constantly and brings a different answer depending on who you ask. Recently U.S. and British researchers reviewed published studies and noticed that both tans and skin cancer start with changes to the DNA that comes from ultraviolet light. “The signals [...]
Moles are an eyesore than anything else and in most cases that is all they are, however there are times when a mole may not be just a vain issue as some moles have higher risks of skin cancer. Moles may in fact be a malignant melanoma if you see the mole is changing in [...]
