Medical Lecture Series IV: 'Does Caffeine Reduce the Risk of Skin Cancer?'
Dr. Nghiem, a UW associate professor of medicine-dermatology and adjunct professor of pathology, has found that when caffeine is added after DNA is damaged by sunlight, pre-cancerous skin cells died at about double the rate than when no caffeine was present. The next big question for Nghiem: should caffeine be in sunscreens?