Do Sunscreens Eliminate the Risk of Melanoma?

Sunscreens do protect against melanoma, says skin cancer specialist.

Sunscreen can help reduce the risk of malignant melanoma, contrary to the finding of a study that received considerable media attention last February, says a skin cancer specialist at Ohio State University’s Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute. "If you’ve heard or read comments to the effect that sunscreens do not protect against malignant melanoma, forget them," said Ronald ...

Sunscreens and melanoma: the future looks bright.

BACKGROUND Meta-analyses of observational case-control studies have demonstrated no association between sunscreen use and the development of malignant melanoma. OBJECTIVES To examine whether this observation is to be expected given the period during which the case-control studies were conducted, the sunscreens prevalent at that time, and how sunscreen is used and applied in practice. To predi...

Sunscreens in melanoma and skin cancer prevention.

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Analysis of association between sunscreens use and risk of malignant melanoma.

BACKGROUND Epidemiological studies evaluating the association between sunscreens use and malignant melanoma risk have produced inconsistent results. Thus, we conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the evidence from epidemiological studies of sunscreens use with the risk of malignant melanoma. METHODS Pertinent studies were identified by a search in PubMed and Web of Knowledge up to October 20...