Vitamin A May Slash Melanoma Risk, Especially in Women
Vitamin A is found in foods such as sweet potato, carrots, spinach, milk, eggs and liver. The vitamin plays an important role in vision, bone health, immune function and reproduction, but high doses of it can be toxic.
The study appears today (March 1) in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
Genetics could increase melanoma risk
Melanoma is the sixth leading cause of cancer in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. About 76,000 cases of melanomas will be diagnosed this year, based on recent estimates.
In the study, researchers examined about 69,000 men and women, and after about six years, 566 had developed melanoma.
Among the 59,000 people in the study who had never taken vitamin A supplements, there were 506 cases of melanoma, while among the 5,800 people who were currently taking it and had used it regularly over the past 10 years, there were 28 cases.






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Your doctor should evaluate you, and the first thing to figure out is if it's a scarring or non-scarring loss. Scarring hair loss is the result of an inflammatory skin disease that causes a scar to grow in place of a hair follicle.
Weight loss, low iron levels, poor diet and stress, along with thyroid and hormonal imbalances, can all cause hair to fall, trichologists say. Hair needs a healthy diet and a well-functioning endocrine system to flourish. But diffuse hair shedding



