Melanoma and Skin Cancer News Round Up: 08/09/2014

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• Skin cancer cases double in 30 years but survival rates also rise

The BBC reports on new research from the Alan Lyell Centre for Dermatology in Glasgow which shows that skin cancer rates have doubled in the last 30 years but survival rates have also risen.

Source: BBC

• High-Risk Melanomas Often on Head or Neck, Study Finds

A look at a study published online (Aug. 20) in JAMA Dermatology by a research team led by Dr. Sarah Shen who investigated mitotic rates of melanomas in more than 1,400 patients. The article contains a number of comments on the study from well respected Dermatologists in the US.

Source: Philly

• Moles can quadruple risk of developing melanoma

A joint study by the University of Melbourne, University of Oxford and Epworth Healthcare states that having moles on your skin can quadruple your risk of developing melanoma. The research compared two groups of people 271,656 for whom moles had been recorded duringa  hospital visit for any condition - and 10,130,417 who did not have moles recorded. 

Source: Medical Xpress

• New techniques help curb advanced melanoma

A Canadian article exploring some of the modern methods of treatment for advanced melanoma.

Source: CBC

• Melanoma Is Not the Only Skin Cancer to Worry About

Researchers from Dundee University and Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands presented their findings at the World Congress on Cancers of the Skin in Edinburgh last week. The study calculated that an average sunbed user, who tans for 12 minutes every eight days between the ages of 20 and 35 is 90% more likely to develop skin cancer by their 50s.

Source: Skin Inc

• New Melanomas Likely to Recur at Same Rate

A diagnosis of in situ or invasive melanoma conferred a similar long-term risk of invasive melanoma recurrence, a 40-year retrospective review showed.

Source: Med Page Today 

• US approves new immunotherapy drug against melanoma

A new drug by Merck pharmaceuticals called Keytruda that uses the body's immune system to fight metastatic melanoma was approved Thursday by US regulators.

Source: Yahoo 

• Sun visors for pilots as research shows high rates of skin cancer

Pilots could start wearing sunglasses or sun visors in the cockpit as a matter of course after new research pinpointed their exposure to sunlight as the likely cause of high rates of skin cancer.

Source: The Guardian

• Cancer warning: UK facing a 'tsunami of skin cancer'

Dermatologist Dr Walayat Hussain told BBC Breakfast that the UK was facing "a tsunami of skin cancer" as experts say cheap foreign holidays and the fashion for having tanned skin are probably to blame for the increase.

Source: BBC 

• I can't stop using sunbeds, even after getting skin cancer: Tan obsessed twin says she can't break the habit despite both her and her sister having health scares

A young woman who says she's addicted to sunbeds admits even getting skin cancer hasn't put her off tanning.

Lucy Simm, 29, from Morecambe, was keen to get back on a sunbed as soon as she had recovered from an operation to remove a cancerous mole on her leg. The woman told her story on ITV's This Morning along with her twin sister who has also been diagnosed with skin cancer.

Source: Daily Mail