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The risk for developing listerosis is five time higher in patients receiving cancer treatment than in other high-risk groups, and they should be offered advice on how to avoid food-borne infections, according to a study by British researchers.

 

Listerosis, caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is rare, but can be serious in patients with cancer or others with suppressed T-cell–mediated immunity due to the disease or its treatment.

 

Regular use of SPF 15+ sunscreen may prevent the development of melanoma in adults, results of a community-based study indicate. The study is the first prospective, randomized study of the relationship between sunscreen use and melanoma.

 

Adèle Green and her colleagues of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia, randomized 1621 white adults (25 to 75 years of age) living in a township in Queensland to daily or discretionary sunscreen application to head and arms; the broad-spectrum sunscreen used had a SPF of 16.