Monthly Archives: April 2009

Breakthrough in Skin Cancer

By admin on April 27, 2009

A revolutionary new “sticking plaster” skin cancer treatment which is less painful and can be used by patients in their homes has been developed by Scottish researchers.

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Swim Shirts On Sale

By admin on April 6, 2009

Swim Shirts.

Our revolutionary new KoreDry / StayDry swim shirts  are a ‘must have’ for anyone going in the water and who needs the highest SPF protection available.
Super soft, breathable and water resistant – they also wear well with a classy look so you’ll look great wet or dry.

These swim shirts provide the same SPF 150 UV and rash protection as our rash guards but in a looser t-shirt style fit that looks stylish in our out of the water for the best looking UV protection money can buy.

This week for readers of our Buy-Rash-Guards blog can get an additional discount off these amazing UV protective shirts by using coupon code kore-dry-swim-shirt when you checkout, (make sure you use it AFTER you put the shirt in your shopping cart).

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New Skin Cancer Diagnostics

By admin on April 3, 2009

We here at Buy-Rash-Guards.com are all about UV protection as we know first hand how important it is to protect your skin from the harmful, cancer causing UV rays of the sun.

So we were excited to read about a team of researchers at the University of San Francisco, (UCSF), who have discovered a new and highly accurate way to distinguish malignant melanomas from benign moles by using genetic markers.

This method has proven to have a success rate over 90% compared to the typical biopsy which is examined microscopically. Researchers say that using this new method in conjunction with the standard microscopic examination will help diagnose difficult cases with much more accuracy.

As most people know, Melanoma is the deadliest and fasted spreading form of skin cancer. It can spread to almost any organ of the body and is difficult to treat in its advanced stages. The earlier it is diagnosed and treated, the higher the survival rate.

This is the first large-scale study to demonstrate both the high diagnostic accuracy and practicality of a multi-biomarker approach to melanoma diagnosis, according to Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, MD, professor of dermatology at UCSF and director of the Melanoma Center at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

We can’t say it enough but please be sure to protect your family’s skin when you’re in or around the water with one of our rash guard shirts… the life you save could be your own or one of your kids!

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5 Reasons to Use Reusable Bags

By admin on April 1, 2009

You know we here at Buy-Rash-Guards.com occasionally like reminding you to take care of Mother Earth and her environment since we figure most of our customers enjoy the outdoors, surfing and swimming in clean water.

To that end we’ve put together a list of 5 reasons to use stop using plastic bags and start using reusable bags:

  1. Plastic bags do NOT biodegrade. They can take up to 1000 years to decompose but even then what they actually do is dissolve into toxic polymer particles that can then easily enter our food chain. Most often, when this happens, it happens in the ocean, (read: fish food).
  2. Only 1% of plastic bags are recycled. The cost to recycle plastic bags outweighs their value so most just get thrown out with the rest of the trash, which means they end up in landfills or blowing around ending up in trees, storm drains, beaches, and the ocean. Then they, (see reason #1)…
  3. 12 million barrels of oil are used to produce the amount of plastic bags the US uses PER YEAR.
  4. Plastic bags make up over 10% of washed-up debris polluting the US coastline. According to the British Antarctic Survey, discarded plastic bags have been found as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as The Falkland Islands. Then they, (see reason #1)…
  5. One million birds and 100,000 turtles and other sea animals die of starvation each year after ingesting discarded plastic bags which block their digestive tracks.


Photo courtesy of the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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