{"id":122,"date":"2010-10-19T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/?p=122"},"modified":"2010-10-29T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T14:10:28","slug":"breast-cancer-patients-are-at-higher-risk-for-melanoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/2010\/10\/19\/breast-cancer-patients-are-at-higher-risk-for-melanoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Patients Are at Higher Risk for Melanoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/files\/2010\/10\/Breast-Cancer.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[122]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/files\/2010\/10\/Breast-Cancer.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Breast-Cancer\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Skin Check-Ups and Self-Exams Are Critical<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Breast cancer is in the news these days, and women with the disease should be aware that they have an increased risk of developing melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. In the US in 2010, there will be an estimated 29,260 new melanoma cases in women.<\/p>\n<p>Genetics may play a role, since women with abnormalities in the <em>BRCA2 <\/em>gene for breast cancer susceptibility have more than two times the chance of developing melanoma than those without mutations in the gene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skincancer.org\/breastcancerawareness2010.html\"> Click here to continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skin Check-Ups and Self-Exams Are Critical Breast cancer is in the news these days, and women with the disease should be aware that they have an increased risk of developing melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. In the US in 2010, there will be an estimated 29,260 new melanoma cases in women. Genetics may &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/2010\/10\/19\/breast-cancer-patients-are-at-higher-risk-for-melanoma\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-dzarnosky","4":"post-122","6":"format-standard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/drlawrence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}