Overexposure to sun can be harmful and can cause skin cancer. Harmful UV rays from the sun are the main cause of skin cancer. The risk of skin cancer depends on the skin type and its color. People with very fair complexion are highly sensitive to UV and this puts them to an increased risk [...]
Often Vitiligo patients are special targets of the people who are out to sell worthless treatment products. These people guarantee that their product will cure them and will remove patches overnight. Poor Vitiligo patients are desperate for cure of their Vitiligo and thus get caught in their trap. Their claims promise miraculous results and offer [...]
A case of melanoma that was treated with interferon and developed vitiligo during the course of treatment. It was later found that his disease kept spreading but he still survived better than the case who have not developed this vitiligo.
The scientists are wondering if a appearance of vitiligo could be taken as a positive sign [...]
Vitiligo patients often use tanning beds to complement topical psoralen therapy. An interesting controversy has erupted since the Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), run by the World Health Organization made and incriminating assertion on July 29, 2009, that UV tanning beds are “carcinogenic to humans.” It may be of note that tanning beds [...]
In a study came into view on the March 22 New England Journal of Medicine, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have exposed a link between a precise gene and the skin condition vitiligo, as well as a possible host of autoimmune diseases.
Vitiligo [...]
