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Article: Study sheds light on how the sun causes skin cancer.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- February 18, 2003
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2003 FEB 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made a discovery that could help solve a mystery in cancer biology: how a sunburn acquired during a childhood day at the beach can develop into a deadly tumor decades later.
The scientists reported in the February 4, 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the sun's damaging ultraviolet (UV) rays target a series of biochemical signals inside the young skin cell, impairing the cell's ability to control its proliferation.
Lynda Chin, MD, and her colleagues found that they could increase both the number of tumors and the speed with which they formed ...