Skin Cancer Archives - The Westside Story

Four or more cups of coffee a day gives 20% additional protection against melanoma skin cancer

Jan 21, 2015

A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute now establishes that drinking four or more cups of coffee per day provides an additional 20% protection against melanoma. Melanoma is any of...

FDA approves melanoma drug from Merck

Charles Omedo

Sep 5, 2014

Health

The sixth melanoma drug to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2011 is now in the market. This new melanoma drug was manufactured by Merck and it is called Keytruda – a drug that activat...

Surgeon General issues tanning warning, causes skin cancer

Platonium

Jul 29, 2014

Health

There has been a whopping 200 percent increase in diagnosed melanoma cases since 1973, the acting U.S. Surgeon General recently reported. As a result, he has asked people to give up or limit use of indoor tanni...

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