Living in Shade

There are many factors that go into why you see more older people with skin cancer than younger people. One of these is because most of the damage caused by the sun’s UV rays is long term damage. Older people a lot of the time are paying the price for what they did earlier in [...]

When the news this summer hit about tanning beds being confirmed as causing cancer a lot of people began to get worried. The media really ran with that story and it was everywhere. I don’t think it really shed any new light on the subject, they went from being a probable cause to a definite [...]

I came across a very saddening story from over in Manchester, England. Its the tale of Nick Hobin. Nick was a 32 year old fair skinned man who its said stayed away from the sun whenever possible. Yet the young father, still passed away earlier this month from melanoma.
The article from the Manchester Evening News [...]

By now I’m sure that everyone knows that skin cancer and sun exposure is for real and a major problem in our modern world. Still, some people don’t pay heed to warnings and shrug at taking simple precautions. The only way those things are going to change is to effect a culture change through teaching [...]

A recent study had found that the risk for melanoma was increased 4x for women who took supplemental vitamins C and E, beta carotene, selenium and zinc. These was an alarming study because about half of adults in our country take vitamin supplements. The results of that study shocked a lot of people. Fortunately according [...]