Tag: SKIN CANCER

The lengths people will go to in order to advocate a cause are quite bizarre. While not nearly as crazy as Señor Gates' outburst yesterday, a UK-based skin cancer charity, Skcin, takes the prize for today's best nutty act of advocacy. The group has put together a fake Web site, called ComputerTan.com, complete with promotional video, fake products, a hoax online tanning program, and even ...

Here's an interesting one. A group of US experts have discovered that a common form of skin cancer could one day be detected very early on by simply analyzing scents. More specifically, it was found that basal cell carcinomas give off an odor that is distinctly different than samples from healthy skin, which obviously opens up the possibility for "cheap and painless testing." In the future, ...