melanoma

Weird but True, Here’s Why Tall People Get Cancer More Often

November 14, 2018 Victoria Simpson

Here’s the logic: if you have more cells, you have a greater chance of having them falling sick. Smoking, eating unhealthy foods, being obese and working or living in a toxic environment: these are all factors that can raise your…

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Skip the Shower: Good Skin Bacteria Can Protect You Against Skin Cancer, Says Study

March 14, 2018 Victoria Simpson

Been a while since you had a bath? You may be doing yourself a favor, even if the noses of your friends and family don’t really agree. A study published in Science Advances on February 28 by researchers at the…

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Could These Two Drugs Be The ‘Cure’ for Cancer?

January 30, 2018 Angela Vuckovic

Is immunotherapy the answer we’ve been waiting for? Scientists are amazed at results that a combination of drugs has with various types of cancer. In October 2015, a combination of targeted cancer drugs, nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy), has been…

Men's Health

Does Viagra Actually Cause Skin Cancer?

August 22, 2017 Victoria Simpson

Some studies say the drug has no connection to the disease whatsoever, and others feel it’s a risk as big as the sun. If you’ve been following the news on erectile dysfunction drugs, you may have heard some scary stuff.…

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Is it Something to Worry About? Different Types of Skin Cancer and How to Spot Them

June 12, 2017 Victoria Simpson

There are many different types of skin cancer and not all look the same, from open wounds to scaly patches and moles. Skin cancer is on the rise in North America. Over the past thirty years, more patients have been…

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Worried About a Spot? This App Can Help You Detect Skin Cancer

June 21, 2016 Victoria Simpson

According to the Canadian Skin Cancer Foundation, a whopping one in three cancers diagnosed worldwide is a skin cancer. In Canada, over 80,000 cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year, with over 5,000 cases of deadly melanoma amongst those,…

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Viagara and Skin Cancer Go to Court: Do Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Really Double the Risk of Deadly Melanoma?

June 18, 2016 Victoria Simpson

For the last few years, reports have been spreading about the possible link between Viagara and skin cancer. Scary stuff. You’d think that taking a drug to treat erectile dysfunction wouldn’t have anything to do with developing dangerous lesions on…

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How Bananas Can Help Detect, Cure Skin Cancer

February 9, 2016 Alex Kozovski

The black spots on bananas can tell us a lot more than how ripe a banana is. Those spots could be the key to finding a faster, easier diagnosis of human skin cancer, which would significantly raise survival rates. Tyrosinase…

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Rising Rates of Melanoma in Women Very Likely Due to Indoor Tanning

February 3, 2016 Victoria Simpson

Here’s another reason to go get a spray on tan this winter, ladies. In the U.S, rates of melanoma-skin-cancer- are on the rise. And they are on the rise faster for women than they are for men. A new study…

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Is the Drug that Helped Jimmy Carter Become ‘Cancer-Free’ a Big Deal?

December 9, 2015 Alex Kozovski

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced last Sunday that the melanoma he was diagnosed with months ago has vanished in his latest brain scan. The scan showed no sign of the cancer that originated in his liver, which eventually spread…