UK male deaths from skin cancer (melanoma) had risen 31% in the past ten years to over 1000 deaths a year.
More men than women die of melanoma because the cancer is detected at advanced stages, and men may be less aware of changes in moles than women are.
In Britain, each year almost 2000 people (almost half are men) die from melanoma. Melanoma has become the second most prevalent cancer after prostate cancer in the UK. More alarming is how melanoma incidence is almost doubling every 10-20 years in countries with predominantly white populations.
What many may not realize is how this …read more

Researchers at the Rutgers University in New Jersey have found that when they make mice continue on running wheels while exposing the mice to ultraviolet B light (UVB), these exercising mice took longer to develop skin tumors, and when tumors do develop, the tumors were smaller and fewer in number than mice that did not exercise.
This prompted lots of press releases about how “exercise protects against skin cancer.” (and if you want to know how I feel about this type of hype, just see my previous post on ginger and cancer!)
What can we conclude?
1. These are mice, not human, sometimes …read more

Each year, over 800 women in Australia die from ovarian cancer. That may not “sound like a large number”, but considering how often this disease is diagnosed at an advanced stage because patients are often “asymptomatic” (without symptoms), a test that allows earlier ovarian cancer detection is important.
HealthLinx is an Australian biotech company that had licensed the technology from The Royal Women’s Hospital and University of Melbourne, codevelopers of the test. The company is seeking 3000 women for clinical trials of this blood test (via finger prick) to detect ovarian cancer. The clinical trial has also Women’s Cancer Foundation’s Ovarian …read more

Rachel Williams’ world turned upside when, at the age of 24, she was told that she had breast cancer.
To put it in perspective, Rachel had a better chance of winning the lottery than getting breast cancer. But as life goes, sometimes it takes just “that one shot” to land into a tough situation. (Plus, Rachel said she hadn’t bought a lottery ticket.)
But Rachel’s story showed the importance of reglar screening and self exams.
Rachel found it hard to have breast cancer as a young patient. It changed her social life and chemotherapy altered her appearances (loss of hair and eyebrows). She …read more

Twelve

Those of you who’s been following my blog may have noticed my constant reference to smoking and all sorts of horrible health problems including cancer.
I’m not naive. I know many are still smoking, either because they are addicted to the nicotine/psychological outcomes of smoking, or they honestly don’t believe anything bad can happen to them healthwise (”I’m invincible” belief).
So I’m glad to see Cory over at Baldiness post a list of not just the health problems associated with smoking, but the beauty problems!
If not for health – how about for beauty? Smoking does a number on your skin AND can …read more

Earl Woods, Tiger Woods’ dad, died Wednesday of prostate cancer at the age of 74.
Earl Woods was a habitual smoker and had a bypass surgery 20 years ago. In 1998, Woods was diagnosed with prostate cancer and was treated with radiation. Two years ago prostate cancer returned and metastasized. Earl Woods attended his last golf tournament in December 2004, from which Tiger donated $1.25 million to the Tiger Woods Foundation that Earl Woods helped establish.
On Tiger Woods’ website, the golf phenom asked that all donations go to the Earl Woods Scholarship Fund.
Tiger said, “My dad was my best friend and …read more