The work also provides new data on the role of cancer stem cell in relation to skin cancer.

An international research team, involving the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) has discovered a cellular signaling pathway might constitute a therapeutic target for the control and eradication of tumors in the skin. …read the rest of this entry»

The scientists cautioned that further testing is necessary to make sure the treatment is really effective and safe

U.S. doctors have been cured of skin cancer to a man using his own immune cells (white cells), according to a report published by the New England Journal of Medicine. …read the rest of this entry»

“Cultural beliefs may play an important role in the ranking by region, since many Americans still tend to get a good tan,” says the magazine in its online edition.

Factors such as the latitude of the place of residence, skin pigmentation, clothing habits, local standards of beauty, beliefs and customs can alter holiday the chances of contracting a disease related to sun exposure. …read the rest of this entry»

Compared with the general population, it was found that those affected by skin cancer excluding melanoma, showed up about 57 percent higher incidence of new cancer processes after treatment of the first disease.

People with skin cancer are more likely to develop another variant of cancer as the rest of the population, according to research conducted in Northern Ireland (UK) and published in the British Medical Journal. …read the rest of this entry»

The risk of melanoma, a disease that annually affects about 160,000 people, has been linked historically with sun exposure, however, there is increasing scientific basis points to a genetic factor of the disease. …read the rest of this entry»

In the United States skin cancer is one of the most common forms of this disease.

The two types of skin cancer are basal cell cancer and squamous cell cancer. Usually this type of disease on the face, neck, hands, …read the rest of this entry»

Those who believed that a person tan and sun exposure caused great benefits to the body, they are very wrong because the decline of the ozone layer, these properties are discarded solar radiation now moving into a product of environmental pollution. …read the rest of this entry»

One of the cancers most common worldwide is the skin. It is estimated that in Spain there are six to seven cases per hundred thousand inhabitants and in Australia, the figure rises to 42 in every hundred thousand. That’s why two medical institutions are innovating in how to detect and combat this type of cancer.

The first is the Clinical Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, where a relatively short time has been using a new operating system. This is Mohs micrographic surgery. With it you can access hard to reach places such as the nose or eyelids. …read the rest of this entry»

The skin is the organ whose main function separate our internal environment of the external, and serves as a protective barrier not only against the sun and infections, but also regulates body temperature, it also serves to receive sensations, such as touch.

The skin has several layers, the outermost called the epidermis, dermis and below the dermis is the hypodermis. …read the rest of this entry»

There are 3 main types of skin cancer.

Basal Cell Carcinoma

Squamous cell carcinoma

Both are also called non-melanoma and are most common in the classification of non-melanomas, other nonmelanoma skin cancers are Kaposi’s sarcoma, carcinoma of Merkel cells and cutaneous lymphoma. …read the rest of this entry»