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Topic: Skin Cancer

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite possession(s):

Smallpox vaccine

Appearance:

Beautiful

Currently has on their coffee table:

Men's Health magazine

Favorite artist(s):

Michelangelo

Favorite body part(s):

Skin, Lungs, Hair

Likes to wear:

Sunglasses

Starsign:

Cancer

Medical note(s):

Has cancer, Undergoing therapy, Infected with HIV

Favorite drink(s):

Tea, Milk

Worst habit(s):

Smoking Marijuana, Smoking, Drinking

Favorite quote(s):

"Fill what's empty , empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Skin cancers and HLA frequencies in renal transplant recipients.

Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

There were skin and liver diseases and what seemed to be an abnormal number of cancers to soft tissue organs such as the lungs and stomach.
Mouth cancers have a higher proportion of deaths per number of cases than breast cancer, cervical cancer or skin melanoma.
Some are better for treating cancers near the skin surface; others work best on cancers deeper in the body.

Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender

Skin cancers are another common eyelid problem, especially in the sunny Florida climate.
Nonmelanoma skin cancers are less deadly than melanomas.

David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

Lasers are used to assist in the removal of moles and skin cancers and phototherapy is often employed to treat both psoriasis and chronic eczema.
This is based in part on studies of second cancers which suggest that these two conditions share a common aetiology with squamous carcinoma of the skin and malignant melanoma.
There is sparse literature concerning skin cancers in liver transplant recipients, and there are no studies comparing the features of skin cancers that develop in liver transplant recipients versus other solid-organ transplant recipients.

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