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Want to Prevent Skin Cancer? Stop Doing These Three Things!

Skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the United States and despite all the efforts to educate people on prevention, people are still needlessly dying from this type of cancer. In my post, “Skin Cancer and Mortality” I quoted a statistic from The American Cancer Society which estimated that there would be... Read more Chevron

posted 05/03/2010, comments (0)|

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Four Foods Which May Protect Against Skin Cancer

Food, glorious food! We all like to eat… right? So why not eat foods which provide us with protection from things like cancer? In researching this article I scoured the literature for foods which had research to back up claims that they could reduce the risk of skin cancer. I looked to reputable sources such as The American... Read more Chevron

posted 04/28/2010, comments (0)|

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Celebrities Get Skin Cancer Too

Sometimes we put movie stars and celebrities into this category of super human folk who never get sick but it simply isn’t true. They get sick too just like anybody else. And some of them develop skin cancer. I am going to be writing today about the celebrities who have survived skin cancer and their message of awareness and... Read more Chevron

posted 04/26/2010, comments (0)|

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Confused about Vitamin D and Sun Exposure? A Patient’s Dilemma

Vitamin D is sometimes called the “sunshine” vitamin because the body produces it when exposed to sunlight. The dilemma is that many of us are not getting much sunshine because we have been dutifully protecting our skin from the sun. We have been told to avoid the sun or to put on sunscreen each time we go out to prevent getting skin... Read more Chevron

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The Healing Process After Mohs Surgery

If you are reading this, there is a good chance that you are about to have Mohs surgery or you have just had your surgery recently. Many of you will have this procedure done to remove basal cell or squamous cell skin cancers. After reading articles such as "What it is Like to Have Mohs Surgery" or "Mohs Surgery: What to Expect During the... Read more Chevron

posted 03/29/2010, comments (4)|

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