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Doctor Green Answers Your Questions about Melanoma

Many of the questions we receive here on SkinCancerConnection  are about melanoma skin cancer. This is no surprise as melanoma  is the most deadly type of skin cancer. Although melanoma accounts for only three percent of all skin cancer cases, it is the cause of more than 75% of skin cancer related deaths. According to The Skin Cancer... Read moreChevron
posted 03/31/2011, comments (0)|
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Melanoma Drug Approved by the FDA

Last summer we reported how a drug called ipilimumab  gave skin cancer researchers hope that there was something doctors could do for patients suffering from advanced melanoma. The original study, published in the August 2010 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, showed that advanced melanoma patients who received ipilimumab and a... Read moreChevron
posted 03/28/2011, comments (0)|
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Do Airport Body Scanners Up Your Risk for Skin Cancer?

There have been a lot of changes to the way we experience air travel. Every time I fly it seems they have changed the rules. They have rules about the liquids and gels you bring on board, they want you to take off your shoes while going through security, and now they have new body scanners you are required to go through unless you want a pat... Read moreChevron
posted 03/07/2011, comments (2)|
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Skin Cancer Prevention Apps

It seems there is an app for everything these days. I have been writing on Health Central about various medical apps to help patients. I have found some great apps to help people who suffer from depression. There are also apps to help people who have anxiety disorders. There are apps for parents of special needs children.  And there are... Read moreChevron
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Tanning Bed Myths

Despite the preponderance of research to show that tanning bed use is unsafe there are still many individuals who ignore the risks. To complicate this issue are the myths perpetuated about tanning beds primarily by marketers from the tanning bed industry. In this post we are going to discuss the inaccuracies of these myths one by one. We are... Read moreChevron
posted 02/15/2011, comments (2)|
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