ALLMedicine™ Sunburn Center

Jan 26th, 2023 - Context: Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States and incidence continues to rise. The leading risk factor for skin cancer is sun exposure in adolescence. Given this, sun protection in young adults is an effective way to ...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Background: Phototoxicity is a sunburn-like response associated with certain medications and is a phenomenon which is not completely understood. Although clinically similar to a typical sunburn reaction, the gene expression changes in phototoxic s...

Jan 20th, 2023 - The purpose of this study is find out whether Oleogel-S10 is an effective treatment for radiation dermatitis when it is used in combination with a standard wound treatment cream called triamcinolone. Oleogel-S10 has shortened the healing time for ...

Jan 17th, 2023 - Over 5 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year, more than all other cancers combined. Most of these cases are caused by excess exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun and artificial sources such as indo...

Jan 4th, 2023 - We present a mild case of Cockayne syndrome that was referred to us with an extreme sunburn at the age of 3. In early teens, although her cutaneous symptoms alleviated without any medications, she developed tremor and dysarthria. Neurological exam...

Mar 21st, 2018 - Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. Although invasive melanoma accounts for only 2% of all skin cancer cases, it is responsible for 80% of skin cancer deaths. Basal and squamous cell carcinoma, the 2 predominant typ...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - Background: Phototoxicity is a sunburn-like response associated with certain medications and is a phenomenon which is not completely understood. Although clinically similar to a typical sunburn reaction, the gene expression changes in phototoxic s...

Jan 20th, 2023 - The purpose of this study is find out whether Oleogel-S10 is an effective treatment for radiation dermatitis when it is used in combination with a standard wound treatment cream called triamcinolone. Oleogel-S10 has shortened the healing time for ...

Jan 17th, 2023 - Over 5 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year, more than all other cancers combined. Most of these cases are caused by excess exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun and artificial sources such as indo...

Dec 15th, 2022 - Enrollment: Recruitment will occur through schools and districts that are committed to partnering with the study team. Schools will be stratified into 2 groups and then randomized to receive either the SHINE intervention or standard education. Str...

Dec 5th, 2022 - The proposed study is a Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) that uses factorial experiments to evaluate individual and combined effects of intervention components to improve intervention efficiency. The study team will use MOST to test an inte...

Aug 12th, 2022 - To err is human, and therefore also part of being a doctor. At the 28th Further Education Week for Practical Dermatology and Venereology, held last month in Munich, Peter Elsner, MD, former director of the department of dermatology at University H...

Jul 15th, 2022 - Minimizing ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure during childhood and adolescence may be the most important factor in preventing skin cancer. The risk for this cancer is particularly strongly associated with cumulative UV exposure and sunburn early...

Jun 22nd, 2022 - Whether exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun can cause new-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) wasn't settled by data from a large, long-running epidemiologic study, but the trends indicated that it could. Participants in the N...

Jun 9th, 2022 - Heavier consumption of fish, including tuna and other non-fried fish, was associated with an increased risk of melanoma, findings from a large prospective cohort study indicated. Examining data on nearly half a million participants from the NIH-AA...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Mario E. Lacouture, MD, a dermatologist with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, explains how providers can manage adverse events that result from melanoma therapies. BRAF and MEK inhibitors have numerous common side effects that can some...