If you?ve had melanoma before, the deadliest form of skin cancer, what is my advice to you? Don?t go to a tanning bed, wear sunscreen when you?re out and avoid excessive amounts of sun.
Makes sense, right?
If you?re shaking your head thinking ?no kidding? ? be warned ? more melanoma survivors than you?d think don?t follow these basic and somewhat obvious rules.
A recent study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research showed that a quarter of melanoma survivors (more than 75,000 new cases are diagnosed each year) don?t use sunscreen and that two percent of these people even frequent tanning salons!
Study author and associate professor of surgery at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Anees B. Chagpar, said that this brings up serious concerns about a population of individuals that are addicted to tanning.
Tanning beds, by the way, in addition to cigarettes, were declared a ?human carcinogen? in 2009 by the International Agency of Research on Cancer. Not a great habit to get into.
And while these individuals who once suffered from melanoma are taking better care of themselves than those who have not, the numbers are startling. According to the American Cancer Society, melanoma will kill 9,480 in 2013 alone!
That?s over 9,000 lives that could be saved or elongated by blocking up and staying out of the sun!
The study was conducted through a review of a 2010 national study in which 27,000 U.S. adults were given a survey asking if they suffered from melanoma and what their sun safety practices were.
Of those who participated, 171 individuals self-reported a previous case of melanoma.
The moral of the story here? It might look nice, it might even feel nice (it's so warm, right?!) but just don?t do it! Tanning beds are a surefire way to dramatically increase your chances for skin cancer and their consequences certainly won?t help you age gracefully.
When you?re out in the sun, block up! If you?re very fair-skinned, don?t be embarrassed to wear a hat or sit under the umbrella during the heat of the day. Your skin will thank you later, and you'll have way fewere wrinkles.
By: Jen Wolfe
For More on Skin Care in the Sun:
10 Ways to Protect Yourself from the Sun
Can the sun heal my acne?
Your Skin and the Sun
Source: http://blogs.discovery.com/dfh-insider/2013/04/some-melanoma-survivors-still-soaking-up-the-sun.html
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