Welcome to our blog. We wanted to create a blog for our patients and the general community, to answer some of your questions regarding skin care and skin health. With the vastness of the Internet, it is often difficult to know who to listen to, and where to get honest advice. If you are one of our patients then you know we are straight shooters, who give honest and trustworthy advice. If you are not one of our patients, just ask anyone in the South bay, and they will tell you who we are.
A wise man once said "if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life". That is how we feel about the field of Dermatology. We have devoted our lives to fighting skin disease and promoting skin health. If this blog helps even one person, well, that would put a smile on our faces.

Sincerely,
Dr. David Horowitz
Dr. Mark Horowitz

P.S.
Did you put your sunscreen on today?

Monday, April 19, 2010

Melanoma Survivors May Have Nine-Fold Increased Risk For Developing Subsequent Melanoma.

MedWire (4/16, Albert) reported that, according to a study published in the March issue of the Archives of Dermatology, "melanoma survivors have a nine-fold increased risk for developing subsequent melanoma compared with the general population." After nine years of follow-up on 89,515 patients with primary cutaneous malignant melanoma, researchers "found that 10,857 (12.1%) of the participants developed one or more subsequent primary cancers," most often "subsequent primary melanoma, which accounted for 25% of the subsequent cancers recorded," a risk that remained higher even after 20 years.
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