By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Summer officially starts Saturday and, with it, Major League Baseball is gearing up to warn players and their fans of the dangers of skin cancer.

Major League Baseball, the Major League Baseball Players Association and the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) are kicking off their 10th annual Play Sun Smart campaign on that day, which has been designated Play Sun Smart skin cancer awareness day.

ATLANTA - An Oregon man, given less than a year to live, had a complete remission of advanced deadly skin cancer after an experimental treatment that revved up his immune system to fight the tumors.

The 52-year-old patient's dramatic turnaround was the only success in a small study, leading doctors to be cautious in their enthusiasm. However, the treatment reported in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is being counted as the latest in a small series of successes involving immune-priming treatments against deadly skin cancers.

With summer around the corner, it’s a good time to remind ourselves of the precautions we need to take to protect our skin in the sun. And while we follow the tried-and-true when it comes to skin protection – limiting our time in the sun, using sunblock, avoiding tanning, and wearing hats, sunglasses and other protective clothing -– there may be something we don’t know when it comes to the more sinister side of the sun.

Most people with pale skin, red hair or freckles know to slather on extra sun block to ward off skin cancer. A trio of new studies reinforces that notion – but also suggests that genes, not pigmentation, may provide the ultimate guide to who is most likely to get skin cancer after sitting in the sun.

Researchers in Iceland and Australia studying thousands of people with melanoma and other skin cancers have pinpointed a gene affecting both a person's skin tone and their chances of getting skin cancer.

THURSDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) -- Workers who face the greatest risk of developing skin cancer from overexposure to the sun are the least likely to get regular exams to detect its early warning signs, a new report says.

Consumption of tomato paste may help boost the skin's protection against harmful ultraviolet rays, which can lead to premature aging and skin cancer, British researchers say.

Hi! Now that summer is nearly (yay!) here, I use a sunless tanner all the time. Not sure if I should say the name but it's well known and is a daily moisturiser you use that develops into a light tan after a few days and it works really well and looks very natural.

I use it every other day to maintain a tan, since I don't want to risk a natural tan yet refuse to expose my lilly white skin to the world!

I know there is no such thing as a 'healthy tan' but we all know it looks great. I love this sunless tanner and would like to use it year round.

I still wear sunblock, obviously.