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Cricketers get skin cancer test

All of the Professional Cricketers Association's members will be screened for skin cancer for the first time. The union organised the programme after one in seven county players were referred to specialists when potential melanomas were found during check-ups. Although 15% of those screened so far will be given further tests, it is hoped most will be given the all-clear. Several Australian players, including Worcestershire's Ashley Noffke, have had melanomas removed in recent years. So far, the PCA has organised screenings for more than 300 cricketers. David Wigley, a player with Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, said his fellow professionals were increasingly aware of the need for the tests. Skin cancer specialist Dr Rob Burd has been carrying out screenings for the PCA. He said cricketers, who spend up to eight hours a day in the sunshine when fielding and batting, are more exposed than most.

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First US face transplant

The recipient of the first US almost-total face transplant has appeared before the media for the first time. Connie Culp, a 46-year-old mother-of-two was left without the middle section of her face after her husband shot her in 2004. Ms Culp, whose identity had been previously withheld, paid tribute to the donor family at a news conference. Surgeons at a clinic in a Cleveland, Ohio, replaced 80% of Ms Culp's face with that of a dead female donor. The transplant is only the fourth to be carried out. Two operations have been conducted in France and one in China.

Biomarkers of melanoma found

Scientists from Yale University have identified new biomarkers that will help develop more effective treatment strategies to fight melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer. The research team has mapped chemical modifications of DNA in the melanoma genome hat will open new avenues for developing improved therapies. In addition to mutations to the DNA code that can cause malignancies, epigenetic changes alterations to the chemical modifications of DNA that regulate genes are frequent in a number of diseases, including cancer. If the normal epigenetic patterns that regulate gene expression are disrupted, cellular functions can go awry and lead to disease. The team then focused on five genes in particular, three of which had not been implicated in melanoma until now.