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Skin Cancer is the
most common form of cancer.
It can be as equally deadly to teens as it can be to older people.
Malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer was found
in 40,000 people in 1997 and resulted in 7300 deaths. Once again
early detection is the key.
Suntanning
Overexposure to the sun accelerates the aging process, and can cause
deadly skin cancer. The way you treat your skin now, is crucial
to its health in your early twenties and on. The elastic fibers
in your skin normally keep the skin soft, young and healthy. Sun
destroys these fibers, causing skin to become highly wrinkled, saggy,
hard and leathery as early as your twenties. Someone who suntans
regularly can easily look 70 by the time they turn 30. Tanned skin
is essentially damaged skin. Skin damaged by the sun can also develop
skin cancer resulting in death by the early twenties. Tanning salons
are death camps. Tans obtained from tanning beds or sun lamps look
completely unnatural anyway. Remember, what looks good on a person
of one race might look ridiculous on a person of another. Fair skin
that is soft and healthy is absolutely beautiful. If you burn yourself
to get color, you are sabotaging the natural beauty of your skin.
Moles
Moles are areas of skin packed full of the skin pigment melanin.
Some people find moles in certain locations unappealing while others,
like Cindy Crawford, become famous for their mole. If the mole has
a regular shape, a smooth boundary, and is a consistent dark brown
in color, you have nothing to worry about. If you notice the mole
is growing, is changing in color, has an irregular boundary, or
has several different hues (from black to bluish for example) see
your doctor immediately. These could be signs that the mole is actually
skin cancer.
Skin Cancer
Risk Groups:
- Fair skin, light hair and light eye color.
Whites have a 20% greater risk of skin cancer than do blacks.
However no one is safe.
- Those with a family history of melanoma
- Those with irregular, growing moles
- Those who subject themselves to painful or
blistering sunburn during youth
- Those who work or play outdoors for prolonged
periods of time
Skin
Cancer Prevention
It
only takes some people 10 minutes to get sunburn. If you
want to enjoy your summer or snow activities in winter, follow these
guidelines whenever you plan to spend a significant amount of time
outside...
Everyone should use a sunscreen
with an SPF of at least 15. Cover every spot on your body
that will be exposed. Your nose, ears, lips, knees and shoulders
burn the fastest because their surface faces up toward the sky.
Use a sunscreen chap stick on your lips. Make sure to double dose
your nose since it's the most common place for skin cancer.
Clouds are no protection.
Use sunscreen in any weather.
Reapply the sunscreen throughout
the day, because sweat causes sunscreen to wear off. It is
especially important to reapply sunscreen before and after swimming,
since wet skin is more receptive to ultraviolet rays.
Do not suntan between 10am
and 2pm. You might as well watch a nuclear bomb explode.
Apply sunscreen under clothes
that don't fully block the sun. If you're wearing
a tight loosely-woven article of clothing, make sure to rub sunscreen
into the skin underneath it, since these types of clothes don't
bock diddlysquat.
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