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Stress a contributor to skin cancer

 Everybody knows that stress is not a good thing. Stress leads to irritability, it is linked to migraines, and it takes away from the overall quality of our lives. Additionally, some researchers have determined that stress can be a contributing factor to skin cancer. In a study at at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, mice  "exposed [...]

Skin cancer knows no skin color boundaries

Skin cancer doesn’t only affect those who spend large amounts of time underneath the sun or in that tanning bed. It can strike those with black skin, yellow-tinted skin or white skin. If you’re white or black and discover some kind of growth or mole-like spot on your body — no matter where it is — it [...]

High-speed injection coming to fight skin cancer

Talk about cancer news that sounds like it comes from the future. In new research, using high-speed liquid injectors to get light-activated cancer-fighting drugs into the body without the need for needles. Many patients would probably hooray something like this, and without using the limitations of needles — some of which don’t penetrate tumors effectively — the targeting [...]