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- Dundee United striker Jordan Moore raises awareness for skin cancer after youngster battles to overcome deadly disease
For young striker Jordan Moore, when the diagnosis finally arrived, it was brutal and unexpected.
Despite having lingering doubts about a mole on his cheek, the-then 19-year-old had been told by no less than four medical professionals that there was nothing to worry about. Even when Moore finally convinced his doctor to arrange a biopsy, the information given out as he waited on his results was that there was a nine in ten chance that everything was fine.
So when the Dundee United striker, who was on loan at Dunfermline at the time, learned in January, a month before turning 20, that he had melanoma skin cancer, it was news that would have shaken a far older man to his very core.
Source: Daily Mail
- Record View: New hope in fight to beat skin cancer
WITH malignant melanoma now the fifth most common cancer in Scotland, RECORD VIEW reckons Pembrolizumab could be a landmark discovery in the fight to beat the disease.
Source: Daily Record
- Skin cancer trial results 'exciting'The results of two international trials against advanced skin cancer have been hailed as "exciting and striking".
Both treatments, for advanced melanoma, are designed to enable the immune system to recognise and target tumours.
Source: BBC
- New insight into drug resistance in metastatic melanoma
A study by scientists in Manchester has shown how melanoma drugs can cause the cancer to progress once a patient has stopped responding to treatment.
Source: University of Manchester
- Teenage Sunburns Raise Melanoma Risk
The risk of developing the deadliest form of skin cancer may be closely tied to sun exposure in youth, a new study suggests.
Source: NY Times
- Dying for a tan: Man, 32, diagnosed with terminal skin cancer after spending £7,000 on sunbed sessions over eight years
A 32-year-old who spent £7,000 on sunbed sessions has been told he is dying of cancer because of his tanning addiction.
Damien Platt was so keen to look tanned he used sunbeds up to 200 times a year - four times more than the EU recommended safe usage.
Mr Platt would spend nine minutes in the tanning booths up to four times a week and continued this routine for eight years.
Source: Daily Mail
It's really a very wonderful post. Skin cancer very much dangerous and common disease nowadays. Better to visit a skin clinic , so that you will get all awareness how to protect it from.
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