Millions of people compulsively pick their skin or pull their hair. Social media is helping some of them to recover.

A common pinworm medication may stop and reverse cancer growth in Merkel cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, ...

FINISHING a 15-minute sun-bed top-up, Vicky Quait, 55, gives a sigh of satisfaction.  It’s her final session before her annual trip to the Caribbean, and a crucial component of her ...

Christie Brinkley, 71, admitted she doesn’t "get rid of every wrinkle" as model spilled on her secrets to staying youthful.

Medically reviewed by Casey Gallagher, MD Skin cancer occurs when skin cells mutate and grow uncontrollably. The most common cause of skin cancer is cell damage from the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays.

Jessica Zbinden-Webster was diagnosed with a rare kind of basal cell carcinoma when she was just 26, now she campaigns to ...

Patients with a rare disease called mucous membrane pemphigoid are at risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma, finds a new study.

STRETCHED out beneath the UV lamps in her favourite booth at her local tanning salon, mum Aimee Kirkham soaks up the only 15 ...

If, like me, you grew in the Aussie sun, chances are you got sunburnt as a child or teenager. While for some, the dangers of sunburn were not as well known, others, myself included, were so intent on ...

John Cena is urging people to be aware of the symptoms of skin cancer after he was forced to have two 'cancerous spots' removed. The professional wrestler, 47, has spoken out about the importance of ...

A small lens which can be used by patients to help detect skin cancer has cut hospital referrals by 50% in a trial being run by a number of GPs, according to a dermatologist consultant.

UVB rays hit the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) and cause most sunburn, while UVA rays reach deeper into the dermis and contribute to ageing. And even though Cancer Research UK warns ...