Useful information on skin cancer, melanoma, skin moles, and how to keep your skin healthy. For medical information about skin cancer, check our library.
2014 was a good year for us to understand how to better improve the SkinVision tool in order to accomplish our mission of having no more skin cancer victims. More people have chosen SkinVision for tracking and monitoring their skin. We were pleasantly surprised to find that we currently have health aware users in over 50 countries and over 145 000 photos have been taken in total. Great news!
New research done by the University of Colorado in Denver suggests that there is a direct link to the risk of melanoma for children with red hair. And on top of that, even more for those who have blue eyes. These characteristics are linked to the amount of moles that are produced, and thus the risk of melanoma or skin cancer.
As we play a part in offering solutions for early detection of melanoma, we also keep a close eye on the research for treatments. There is a big part of the world that will eventually get melanoma in their lives. So research on this topic is extremely important; what are the latest updates on melanoma research?
Theresa from Queensland, Australia wrote to us with a heartwarming tale of her experience with Skinvision. Thank you for sharing your story with us:
Previously, we shared research among more than 300 women between 30 and 50 performed by SkinVision, revealing that 70% of them examines their skin on a regular basis. Nearly all of those women do so through self-exams, providing the large majority with massive peace of mind.
There may be nothing new under the sun, but the level of UVB radiation reaching us from the sun is new every day. UVB causes tanning and sunburn as well as being responsible for freckles, age spots, moles and ultimately skin cancers such as deadly melanomas. While UVA levels remain constant in all environmental conditions, UVB levels vary according to the circumstances. Here are 6 steps to sun damage from the sun.