
Skin Cancer Research

by Science Photo Library
Title
Skin Cancer Research
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Science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Skin cancer research. Researcher studying tropical fish as part of research into melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer. Until 1993, it was thought that only the sun's shorter, UV-B rays were cancer-causing. New findings were published by researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA. They found that malignant melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, can be induced by the longer UV-A rays as well as UV-B, and that two visible light wavelengths, violet and blue, may act similarly. The findings in tropical fish susceptible to melanoma were extrapolated to humans. Photographed in 2006.
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June 30th, 2016
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