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On AlterNet: skin cancer

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "skin cancer"

Tanning Beds As Deadly As Arsenic And Mustard Gas: Study

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post July 29, 2009.
The study classifies tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation as definite causes of cancer, alongside tobacco, the hepatitis B virus and chimney sweeping, among others.

Tan Is the New Tacky

Tan Is the New Tacky

Verena von Pfetten, Huffington Post. September 30, 2008.
There is nothing inherently healthy about tanning. It can give you wrinkles and cancer. Good thing it's gone the way of the Ugg boot.

Baked Alaska: Palin Installed a Tanning Bed in the Governor's Mansion

Baked Alaska: Palin Installed a Tanning Bed in the Governor's Mansion

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2008.
... and why it matters.

Baseball Caps and Sunscreen: McCain's Melanoma Cover-Up

Baseball Caps and Sunscreen: McCain's Melanoma Cover-Up

Brian McKenna, CounterPunch. July 29, 2008.
McCain has a history of melanoma, the most deadly skin cancer -- one most sunscreens won't protect against.