Morsani College of Medicine

Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery

Posts Tagged FDA

Telling the Truth about Sunscreen and Skin Cancer
June 25, 2010

  Recently some are stating that sunscreen containing retinyl palmitate can cause skin cancer. This is not true. The FDA scientists have demonstrated that retinyl palmitate of 0.1% or 0.5% applied in the morning to hairless rats and then exposed to four hours of UV-exposure was associated with increased growth rates of skin tumors and lesions, not skin cancer. However, […]