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Topic: Skin Cancer

3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

Mutations make cancer cells immortal

Pattra Chun-On - The Conversation
People sunbathe on a beach in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, June 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

How summer and diet damage your DNA

Adam Barsouk - The Conversation
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How sunscreen's magic works

Kerry Hanson - The Conversation

radiation in the air

Timothy J. Jorgensen - The Conversation
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This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2015, the U.S. government said Zika infections have been confirmed in nine pregnant women in the United States. All got the virus overseas. Three babies have been born, one with a brain defect. (James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)

beware bogus treatments

Larry Schwartz - Alternet
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Stephanie Russell-Kraft
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Should teens be banned from tanning?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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