Don't forget to put sunscreen on your eyelids

Shocking UV pictures show we miss 10% of our face when applying sun cream, leaving us open to cancer

• Some 77% of people fail to rub sun cream into the bridge of their nose
• Eyelids are unprotected by 13.5%; the inner eye corners are also forgotten
• Experts believe warnings about avoiding the delicate eye area are to blame
• They recommend people wear sunglasses to help protect their face from rays
• More than 90% of skin cancer cases occur on the head or neck in the UK 

We've all heard the warnings: excessive sun exposure damages our skin and can lead to skin cancer. 

But it's easy enough to not pay too much attention to the advice if you can't really see the negative effects with your naked eye.

So consider these pictures your wake-up call.

Researchers took images of volunteers using an ultra-violet-sensitive camera to show how much of their face they had covered with suncream.

They found that people fail to put sun cream on a tenth of their face – despite it being the most common area for skin cancer. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4671486/We-miss-10-percent-face-applying-sun-cream.html

New era in the war on cancer: Revolutionary treatment that will save thousands hailed as 'biggest breakthrough since chemotherapy'

• Immunotherapy teaches body to attack cancer cells and destroy tumours
• The treatment will replace chemotherapy within five years, say researchers
• It is particularly effective against skin and lung cancer, experts believe
• Trial patients expected to only survive months went on to live normal lives

A cancer treatment that teaches the body to attack tumours will save the lives of tens of thousands of patients, researchers claim.

Experts believe it could be the biggest step forward since chemotherapy and could replace it within five years.

The treatment is particularly effective against some of the deadliest types of the disease including lung and skin cancer. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3105049/New-era-war-cancer-Revolutionary-treatment-save-thousands-hailed-biggest-breakthrough-chemotherapy.html

Revolutionary new PILL could treat skin cancer: Scientists discover drug could help patients resistant to standard treatments

• Drug called a panRAF inhibitor could help advanced skin cancer patients
• Skin cancer patients can become resistant to standard drugs within a year 
• The new drugs hit several cancer cell survival routes at once
• They suppress tumours without any significant side-effects
• Clinical trials focusing on safety and dosage will begin next year

A revolutionary new pill for advanced skin cancer is to be trialled next year. Laboratory tests suggest that the drug is likely to be effective in melanoma patients who no longer respond to existing treatments.

Known as a panRAF inhibitor, the drug may also help people with a strain of cancer that cannot be treated with standard drugs.

Melanoma, or malignant skin cancer, affects around 13,000 people and causes more than 2,000 deaths in the UK each year. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2894612/Revolutionary-new-PILL-treat-skin-cancer-Scientists-discover-drug-help-patients-resistant-standard-treatments.html

The killer pimple: Doctors warn of aggressive form of skin cancer which is six times more likely to kill if it is not removed within two months

• Nodular melanomas look like a red lump rather than an ugly dark mole
• The aggressive form of skin cancer makes up just 15 per cent of melanoma cases but causes 43 per cent of melanoma deaths
• The deadly melanomas grow at four times the rate of other melanomas
• The skin cancers can be harmless-looking so often go undiagnosed

Dermatologists have raised the alarm on an aggressive form of melanoma that looks like a harmless pimple but kills hundreds of Australians a year. Diagnosis delays mean people with the cancer are six times more likely to die than from other melanomas.

Nodular melanomas usually appear on the skin as a red nodule rather than an ugly dark mole, leading doctors to mistake them for relatively harmless forms of skin cancer or even pimples.Read more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2632452/The-killer-pimple-Doctors-warn-aggressive-form-skin-cancer-six-times-likely-kill-not-removed-three-months.html