Category: UV Radiation

• Question: Is there such a thing as a healthy tan?

  

  Fashion and Fiction… Decades of research and hundreds of thousands of skin cancer-related deaths have shown that there is no such thing as a “healthy tan.” Followers of the fashion trends of the past endured bleeding themselves into anemia and poisoning from lead-based cosmetics and arsenic ingestion in order to obtain the palest skin possible; in the 20th century as the tan was redefined to represent…

  Dr. Shadi Kourosh

  August 17, 2014

  Melanoma, Skin Cancer, Sun protection, Sunscreen, UV Radiation

  addiction, radiation, skin cancer, sun exposure, sunscreen, tanning, teens, UV, vitamin D

• Question: How can I prevent skin cancer?

  

    May is Melanoma Awareness Month, and this edition of A.S.K the Derm is dedicated to my dear friend Jean Schlipmann and all the families affected by melanoma.   The Epidemic In the US, 1 in 5 people will develop skin cancer in their lifetime, and about 1 in 60 will get invasive melanomas, the deadliest type…

  Dr. Shadi Kourosh

  May 5, 2014

  Aging, Melanoma, Skin Cancer, Sun protection, Sunscreen, UV Radiation

  cancer, dermatologist, dermatology, health, melanoma, prevention, public health, skin, sunscreen, wellness