'Don't use them': Tanning beds triple skin cancer risk, study finds
When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow like a celebrity.
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Neoplasms: News and Research on Skin Neoplasms
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Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level
Tanning bed users are known to have a higher risk of skin cancer, but for the first time researchers have found that young indoor tanners undergo genetic changes that can lead to more mutations in their skin cells than people ...
Dec 27, 2025
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BRAF gene mutation leads to different therapeutic responses in melanoma and colorectal cancer
A review article led by researchers from the B·ARGO group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and from the Medical Oncology Department of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) in Badalona provides a comparative ...
Dec 22, 2025
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Accelerated cancer drug approvals yield modest survival gains at significant Medicare cost
Early access to new cancer drugs, granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has provided mixed benefits for patients while costing Medicare billions of dollars, reveals research published ...
Dec 21, 2025
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Thick melanoma tumors may be linked to poorer survival than some metastatic cases
The current melanoma staging system does not always reflect actual survival outcomes. In some cases, patients with thick but localized tumors have poorer long-term survival than those with melanoma that has spread to nearby ...
Dec 18, 2025
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Tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight, study shows
Tanning bed use is tied to almost a three-fold increase in melanoma risk, and for the first time, scientists have shown how these devices cause melanoma-linked DNA damage across nearly the entire skin surface, reports a new ...
Dec 12, 2025
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New sunscreen ingredient could soon be allowed in the US
Americans may soon have access to a new sunscreen ingredient already used around the world.
Dec 12, 2025
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New data highlight promise of pivekimab sunirine in two aggressive blood cancers
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center presented promising new data from two ongoing studies of pivekimab sunirine (PVEK), an antibody-drug conjugate targeting CD123, in treating two aggressive ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Lower doses of immunotherapy for skin cancer give better results, study suggests
According to a new study, lower doses of approved immunotherapy for malignant melanoma can give better results against tumors, while reducing side effects. This is reported by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in the Journal ...
Dec 7, 2025
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Worried after sunscreen recalls? Here's how to choose a safe one
Most of us know sunscreen is a key way to protect areas of our skin not easily covered by clothes from excessive ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
Dec 5, 2025
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