Sunscreen Alone Can’t Protect From Deadliest Skin Cancer

As summer approaches, scientists have a new warning for sun worshipers: sunscreen can’t completely protect you from the deadliest of skin cancers.

While high-protection sunscreen helps against most damage, enough radiation can get through to spur malignant melanoma, according to a study released yesterday in the journal Nature that’s the first to pinpoint a molecular mechanism of malignant melanoma, a disease that kills almost 10,000 Americans a year, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.