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Possible skin cancer vaccine shows promise in late stage trial. Moderna stock skyrockets (www.msn.com)
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[–] 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And, those who knew about the announcement beforehand are making bank.

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    • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    This is hopeful news for people who unfortunately already have skin cancer.

    However, even if this were to be successful and accessible, prevention is still always superior to treatment. Wear sunscreen folks! There’s like a million reasons why it’s good for your skin.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I had a lady tell me that sunscreen gives you skin cancer. She was a nurse that quit during COVID because she refused the vaccine. That was a miserable conversation.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Most sunscreen formulas contain dihydroacetone, a which is known to damage DNA.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38867704/

    The zinc or titanium ones are much safer. The right answer is avoid peak sun and wear sun clothing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Is.. that study not about damaging DNA if inhaled? I do not often inhale sunscreen.

    Plus, DHA is used for tanning. Not exactly sunscreen.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    it's used in tanning lotions. If you smear chemicals on your skin, they get ingested.

    Crush some garlic in the palm of your hand. You'll taste garlic.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    There is this football player, very famous, he was on the wining world cup team. That's a solar cream negationist.

    He has videos saying that people needs to make solar callus taking sun all the time and they won't get cancer.

    If you ask me he should be in jail, he is going surely to cause many deaths.

    But here we are, the new crazy people bogus is that solar cream is somehow something bad.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    yet somehow people think "big Pharma" is hiding "the cure for cancer" because they make more money from chemo and shit. "big Pharma" is not a monolith - the developer of the treatment (and stockholders) would make tons of money from it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    But only until the patents expire. They'll run out of cancers to fix and then the money train is over. Not curing things pays off forever.

    Also, if a cancer treatment that cures you is $200, 000, but a cancer treatment that might put you into remission or might cause you to die costs $175,000, your insurance company will only help pay for the $175k one.

    Unless a CEO was recently shot.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Sweet another stock to invest in, wait this is about stocks correct?

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    [–] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    And maybe now doctors can admit that the sun is beneficial to human health?

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