A new study by Austrian researchers has shown that extended sun exposure and an immune system suppressed by arduous exercise poses marathon runners to a greater risk of developing skin cancer. Researchers said in the course of training and competing outdoors, marathon runners may be exposed to considerable ultraviolet radiation from the sun, a potential risk factor for melanoma.

Dr. Christina Ambros-Rudolph and colleagues at the Medical University of Graz in Austria studied 166 men and 44 women long-distance runners, aged 19 to 71, recruited at the annual marathon in Graz

A new study by researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston has shown that the genes controlling the color of skin and hair also play a vital role in determining a person's risk to skin cancer. They found that women with one "red hair color" gene but had medium or olive skin, as opposed to fair skin, actually had the highest skin cancer risk among a group of Caucasian women.

Dr. Jiali Han and colleagues studied red hair color (RHC) and non-red hair color (NHRC) variants of the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene. MC1R is a skin color-determining gene and is highly variable among light-skinned populations

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Zolinza (vorinostat) capsules for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), a type of skin cancer.

The FDA said the drug is to be used when the disease persists, gets worse, or comes back during or after treatment with other medicines.

Zolinza was approved as part of FDA's Orphan Drug program, which offers companies financial incentives to develop medications for diseases affecting fewer than 200,000 patients a year

Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital in Boston have discovered a new cream that they say could effectively tan the skin without exposure to sun and may help prevent serious skin cancers like melanoma. The cream has not been tested on humans but researchers say the tests on lab mice have been promising.

Researchers say that the tanning mechanism of the cream is different from the sunless tanning lotion presently available in the market. The new cream alters the skin pigmentation by recreating a process that occurs naturally when ultraviolet sunlight strikes skin cells

U.K. scientists have formulated a sunscreen to heal sunburned skin and may even curb skin cancer.

The lotion filters the sun's harmful rays like regular suncreams