Category Archives: Skin Cancer

DermSurgery Associates

Are men more at risk for skin cancer than women?

How men can protect themselves from life-threatening skin cancer. It’s the first day of vacation, and you and your buddies are beginning an awesome week at the lake.  Everybody’s taking their shirts off to soak up the sun between dives into the cool water. It’s a great way to spend the day, right? Wrong. The …

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DermSurgery Associates

What you need to know about sun damaged skin

Plus: Why not all sunscreens are created equal. Applying sunscreen before leaving to spend time outdoors could be as common-place as brushing one’s hair or remembering to pick up your wallet and keys. Unfortunately, often it’s not, and this simple oversight leads to many new cases of skin cancer and other cases of sun damaged …

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April is National Cancer Control Month

April is National Cancer Control Month, a period during our busy year when the attention turns to combatting and overcoming this disease. According to researchers, more than 550,000 Americans die each year in the United States from one or another form of this disease. Although skin cancers don't account for a large percentage of the …

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