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Article: Too Much Sunlight Kills As Well As Comforts, When Harsh Solar Radiation Generates Melanoma.
- Article from:
- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Beneath the sunscreen cream that sunbathers smear on their noses and use to anoint wider skin surfaces, lies a layer of the body's own built-in protection against excess sunlight. These dark, pigment-producing melanocytes might themselves be destroyed by solar radiation if they didn't harbor a protective gene that enables the skin's pigmented cells to survive the sun.
But frustrating those harsh rays may have a darker side as well - making malignant melanoma highly resistant to anticancer treatment. A cover story in the current issue ...