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ICYMI: December 23, 2016

NOTE: The Prevent Cancer Foundation® will be closed next week for the holiday season. ICYMI will return to your inbox on Friday, January 6, 2017….

Cancer Prevention Leaders Honored at the 24th Annual Congressional Families Awards Luncheon

The Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program held its 24th Annual Action for Cancer Awareness Awards Luncheon on September 22 on Capitol Hill. The Program’s signature…

ICYMI: January 29, 2016

  Feature Story Prevent Cancer Foundation Launches Think About the Link® Campaign on Connection Between Certain Viruses, Cancer TUESDAY, January 26, 2016 — The Prevent Cancer…

ICYMI: December 11, 2015

Feature Story Research making progress on why young non-smokers get lung cancer SATURDAY, December 5, 2015 (The Washington Post) — It was just a tiny…

Weighing the Dangers and Benefits of the Sun

The Washington Post published this article on Friday encouraging people to get out in the sun and go easy on the sunscreen because we need…

Say No to Indoor Tanning Beds. Know More. Do Better.

This blog was originally published here by Disruptive Women in Health Care. I CONFESS… I went to a tanning bed before attending a destination wedding,…

Tanning bed lamps will now carry more warnings

FDA adds stricter warnings to tanning bed lamps The Prevent Cancer Foundation is pleased that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reclassified ultraviolet…

Tanning Beds Directly Correlate to Skin Cancer

A major European study by the International Prevention Research Institute in France recently found extremely high rates of melanoma in young users of indoor tanning…

Teens Banned from New York Tanning Beds

New York’s Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed a law on July 16 prohibiting the use of indoor tanning beds by children ages 16 and younger….

As Melanoma Rates Increase, So Do Survival Rates

According to an analysis spanning four decades in Minnesota, there is good news and bad news when it comes to skin cancer. From 1970 to…