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Kevin Berman, MD, PhD

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posted 06/08/2009, comments (0)

Skin Cancer, Medications and Medical Conditions

Hi everyone. Today, I want to talk about some medical conditions and their treatments in relation to skin cancer. While most people accept that treatments and medications have side effects, nobody wants to hear that medications they must take for one condition may lead to cancer of another organ. Unfortunately, some diseases require very... Read more Chevron

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Kevin Berman, MD, PhD

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posted 02/20/2009, comments (3)

Are your moles and freckles precancerous?

Hi everyone. Today I want to talk about some new information coming out about actinic keratoses, which are thought to be precancerous lesions commonly found on sun exposed areas of skin. These scaly, usually somewhat reddish skin lesions are commonly treated with liquid nitrogen in order to prevent them from possibly evolving into squamous cell... Read more Chevron

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posted 12/15/2008, comment (1)

What New Tools Can Stop Skin Cancer?

If you look at current statistics, about 8400 people will die of melanoma skin cancer this year. Melanoma is an aggressive skin cancer and can metastize quickly to other areas in the body. So any tools that help to detect this cancer quickly - by patients or by health professionals - can be a step forward in reducing the mortality from... Read more Chevron

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posted 12/03/2008, comment (1)

Melanoma

A year waiting to remove the lezia on my leg was too much time for the melanoma to grow into 1.30mm size. Fortunately op was done one mounth ago,I'm felleng good now,start working three days ago.The chances to be curred are 84% which is really great.I will controll my skin moles every 3 months and do the body map for each and every one of... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/04/2008, comments (3)

Smell Your Way to Cancer??? U-huh!!

Physicians have long since used "smell" to make diagnoses - you can smell necrotic, dying tissue; you can smell an infectious, pus filled exudate; you can smell the by-products of certain drugs in your urine; you can smell someone who has been on the Atkin's diet long term (their breath has ketones in it because of the high protein intake). ... Read more Chevron

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