Skin Cancer : Risk Factors
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Skin cancer can strike at any age, but it is more common in older people because they've had more years of sun exposure. Fortunately, you can take steps to reduce your chance of getting skin cancer, even if you haven't been careful about the sun before.
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A pedigree is a family tree or chart made of symbols and lines that represent a patient's genetic family history. The pedigree is a visual tool for documenting biological relationships in families and the presence of diseases.
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To find out what your family risks are, ask people on both sides of your family. Start with your parents, siblings and children.
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The Write Stuff: Your Family HistoryWhat was your grandmother's maiden name? Where did your ancestors come from?
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If your father or mother has heart disease, that doesn't mean you will automatically develop it, too. It's true that you are more likely to get it than someone who does not have a family history of heart disease, but you can take steps to try to prevent it.
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Although inheriting certain genes might boost your chances of contracting a disease, it's rarely a sure thing. Often, your lifestyle and environment can join with disease-prone genes to make a potential disease a reality.
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Pedigree charts are a visual tool for documenting biological relationships in families and the presence of disorders. Using these charts, a medical professional such as a geneticist or genetic counselor, can analyze the genetic risk in a family for a particular trait or condition by tracking which individuals have the disorder and determining how it is inherited.
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Inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun. Sunburn is caused by exposure to the ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun.
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A sunburn occurs when skin is burned by exposure to the sun or other ultraviolet light. See also sunburn first aid .
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Detailed information sunburn, including symptoms and treatment
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Here's one effective remedy: Keep a bottle of moisturizing lotion in the refrigerator. If you suffer a sunburn, rub the cooling lotion on your skin. Repeat as often as needed.
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Detailed information sunburn, including symptoms and treatment
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Detailed information sunburn, including symptoms and treatment
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Detailed information sunburn, including symptoms and treatment
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Detailed information sunburn, including symptoms and treatment
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A sunburn is an inflammation or blistering of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun. Sunburn is caused by excessive exposure to the ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun.
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Sunburn is an inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Sunburn is caused by exposure to the ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun.
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How to soothe and relieve a sunburn, and what to do in the case of more serious burns.
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The sunburn on my legs and has blistered in spots and is turning purple. What causes this and is there anything that I need to do now? What should I look out for?
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