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How can excessive exposure to sunlight create abnormalities within a cell cause melanoma?
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What type of exposure causes cutaneous carcinoma?
UV exposure from excessive sunlight
Permanent wrinkling of skin is usually due to changes caused by excessive exposure to?
Sunlight
Why does sun exposure increase the risk for malignant melanoma?
The melanocytes are part of the integument's photoprotective mechanism; in response to sunlight, they produce melanin that has a protective role from the sun's ultraviolet rays.
Melanoma is a skin cancer that occurs in the melanocyte cells of the body. What could be a cause of melanoma?
Ultraviolet radiation (part of sunlight).
What are the risk factors of skin cancer?
Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers. Fortunately, most skin cancers are slow growing, easy to recognize, and relatively easy to treat when detected early. Risk Factors: Gender: Men are more likely to develop non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancers than women. Age: Race: The risk for melanoma is 10x's higher for whites than for African Americans because of the protective effect of skin pigment. Whites with fair skin that freckles or burns easily are at especially high risk. Immune system suppression Excessive exposure to Ultraviolet radiation: tanning lamps, booths, or sunlight Chemical exposure: Radiation Exposure Family History More information can be found at: http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@nho/documents/document/skincancerpdf.pdf
What causes mililoma?
Do you mean melanoma. It can be caused by a number of things but sunlight is the main thing.
What are the causes for skin diseases?
The main causes of skin diseases is over exposure to ultraviolet (UV) sunlight - melanoma and other skin cancers. Any moles on the body should be monitored and medical advice sort as soon as such blemishes appear to have changed or grown.
Does sunlight exposure effect plant growth?
yes. It depends on how much of the sunlight the plant has
What is the disease in which one of the enzymes needed to repair sunlight-damaged DNA is missing?
Xeroderma pigmentosum, whose inflicted are called Children of the Night, are forbidden exposure to any sunlight due to the DNA disorder blocking the ability to repair damage done by ultra- violet light. Squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma are the main causes of death from this malady.
Why do colors of clothes fade when you wash them?
because of the exposure to sunlight
What determine the color of the skin?
Genetic factors, exposure to sunlight.
How is sunlight exposure good for us?
It gives you Vitamin D
