A report from the Mayo Clinic states that incidence rates for basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas...

Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston suggest that melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene variant tied to red hair and...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a new mechanism that could explain how the Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCV),...

Pregnant women are not at higher risk of developing melanoma than women who are not pregnant, and the prognosis for melanoma is not worse...

A new gene discovery may represent a new diagnostic marker or even therapeutic target for rare, aggressive acral lentiginous melanoma...

Genetic testing of tumour and blood fluid samples from people with and without one melanoma has shown that two new blood tests can...

Tanning dependence, also referred to as tanning addiction, might be associated with other addictive behaviours, according to findings of...

Diagram showing differences that can be observed in cell morphology in normal skin cells versus melanomas. Pink images show differences...