Scientific research: Association between indoor tanning bed use and skin cancers
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event Wednesday, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy!
There is mounting scientific research that shows an association between indoor tanning bed use and the risk of developing melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. I believe that significant public health efforts to reduce indoor tanning could greatly reduce the burden of skin cancer. I have spent the past several years developing a researc...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
The Myths of Indoor Tanning
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event next week, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy!
A healthy glow. A base tan. Safer than the sun.
I’ve heard these myths from indoor tanning proponents for years. The reality is there is not a single ounce of scientific merit to validate these fallacies.
This Skin Cancer Awareness month, let’s put an end to the myths and get the facts straight.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Skin Cancer Removal Without the Scalpel
A type of skin cancer treatment uses radiation instead of surgery to eradicate non-melanoma cancers, but some doctors are skeptical the new practice works as well as surgical removals. (Source: WSJ.com: Health Journal)
Source: WSJ.com: Health Journal - April 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: FREE Source Type: blogs
How Manipulated Clinical Evidence Could Distort Guidelines - the Case of Statins for Primary Prevention
This study excluded many patient for whom the statins were not contraindicated or warned against: uncontrolled hypertension; type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus on insulin or with a HgBA1C at least 10%; and body weight more than 50% "desirable limit for height." (Based on the official contraindications and warnings for commonly used statins, e.g., see contraindications for Lipitor here, active liver disease, pregnancy for likely to become pregnant, nursing mothers, hypersensitivity to the medicine; and warnings: use of cyclosprine or strong CYP3A4 inhibitors, uncontrolled hypothyroidism, renal impairment.) Thus ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 3, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: American College of Cardiology American Heart Association clinical trials conflicts of interest evidence-based medicine guidelines manipulating clinical research review articles Source Type: blogs
How to Navigate a Cancer Diagnosis
Unlike many of the most important events in one’s life — graduation, marriage, having a child — almost no one anticipates a cancer diagnosis.
This year, nearly 239,000 U.S. men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 232,000 women will learn they have breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Over their lifetimes, nearly half of all men can expect a cancer diagnosis, and more than a third of women. (The data does not include non-melanoma skin cancers, the most common diagnosis.)
“Thankfully, we now have many tools for detecting cancers early and treating them successfully. But l...
Source: World of Psychology - June 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Niki Barr, PhD Tags: General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Stress American Cancer Society Anxious Thoughts Breast Cancer Cancer Diagnosis Cancer Patients Cancers Effective Tools Emotional Wellness Important Events Lifetimes Managing Anx Source Type: blogs
Sensus SRT-100 Now FDA Approved for Keloids
Sensus Healthcare (Boca Raton FL) received FDA approval to begin marketing its SRT-100 superficial radiotherapy system for the treatment of keloids, or scar tissue that forms over a wound whether from injury or surgical procedures. The system is used otherwise for treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers during in-office procedures.The SRT-100 utilizes superficial X-rays to deliver radiation to the surface of the skin while causing no pain and not requiring anesthesia.Read More (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - May 31, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Dermatology Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer’s and Skin Cancer
People who have non-melanoma skin cancer may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's Disease.
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People who have non-melanoma skin cancer may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to research carried out by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
The findings were published in the May 15, 2013 online issue of Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"Several previous studies had found correlations between cancer and the risk for developing Alzheimer's disease," said lead author Robert White, an Einstein medical student enrolled...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - May 17, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Minimal Reporting Guidelines for the Treatment of Cancer Patients
Minimal Reporting Guidelines for the Treatment of Cancer Patients As laboratory physicians, our contribution to patient care is knowledge: this is the starting point from which all informed therapeutic intervention proceeds. How that knowledge is obtained and communicated is the art and science of our profession. These minimal diagnostic guidelines are designed to be used as an aid, not a constraint, in that process. The guidelines are presented in a specific format out of necessity, but any format that effectively communicates the necessary information in a given patho...
Source: Oncopathology - September 5, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
