Tag: sunscreen

What’s the sunscreen skin cancer connection?

Posted by Anna Jones, Health Writer | Oct 25, 2014 | NewsArticles | 0 |

A common ingredient in sunscreens, the vitamin A derivative retinyl palmitate, may actually increase skin cancer growth. An American Food and Drug Administration study applied retinyl palmitate cream to lab animals and then...

FDA Study Shows Surprising Skin Cancer, Sunscreen Link

Posted by Anna Jones, Health Writer | Oct 31, 2010 | HealthNews, NewsArticles | 1 |

The U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration found that 20 percent of lab animals studied in a sunscreen investigation developed faster growing skin cancer lesions and tumors than those animals not applied with the sunscreen...