Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
Nov 15th 2009, 1:04 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
Does anybody know of anywhere NOR in Perth to have the checks done?
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Nov 15th 2009, 1:10 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
Actually qlds sunday mail yesterday had 4 teens, and their sun damage, one 16 yr old had the skin age of 26. Kids go to a high with 2300 kids, not one comes out with hat or sunnies
Mine wear sunblock and get teased for it, apparantly teens can detect it by smell/shine
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Nov 15th 2009, 1:13 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
I see keeping it a serious thread is erm difficult.
Just once eh please!!
Skin cancer is totally preventable? I guess it is if you never expose yourself to any UV rays, easy in qld, block up your windows? car windscreen? stay in the shade, your still getting 30% + of the rays, protective clothing does not cover your nose, cheeks, neck, sun reflects up as well as down.
Once you get a few removed you realise just how far those UV rays spread, my inner big toe, an area you cant even see normally....
Anyway I am picking up son 2 from school now off to same docs with him, blonde hair, green eyes, DN already removed..... should be interesting. Back later.
Just once eh please!!
Skin cancer is totally preventable? I guess it is if you never expose yourself to any UV rays, easy in qld, block up your windows? car windscreen? stay in the shade, your still getting 30% + of the rays, protective clothing does not cover your nose, cheeks, neck, sun reflects up as well as down.
Once you get a few removed you realise just how far those UV rays spread, my inner big toe, an area you cant even see normally....
Anyway I am picking up son 2 from school now off to same docs with him, blonde hair, green eyes, DN already removed..... should be interesting. Back later.
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Nov 15th 2009, 1:17 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
Do you have a link to the thing on 'skin cancer is almost totally preventable'? Would make interesting reading.
Nov 15th 2009, 1:29 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
As you mentioned stats.... some info from my site, not from Google, JAD.
There are two main types of skin cancer, and skin cancer is almost totally preventable.
Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, with over 380,000 people diagnosed every year.
Deaths from Skin Cancer
Why the lower number of Deaths, per 1,000 population, in Australia ?
Because most people have an annual skin check to try to detect sun cancer early, and then have it treated before it becomes a major problem.
There are two main types of skin cancer, and skin cancer is almost totally preventable.
- malignant melanoma - cancer in moles
- the non-melanoma group - basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma
Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, with over 380,000 people diagnosed every year.
Deaths from Skin Cancer
- Australia = 1,678 deaths from 380,000 + reported cases : 4.4 per 1,000
- UK = 2,300+ deaths from 72,000 + reported cases : 31.9 per 1,000
Why the lower number of Deaths, per 1,000 population, in Australia ?
Because most people have an annual skin check to try to detect sun cancer early, and then have it treated before it becomes a major problem.
He also told me I would be almost as higher risk in the UK as I would here as I have 'that kind of skin', only difference here is although the sunshine pushes it a bit higher in the risk stakes, the awareness and expertise of this area in Australia makes for a quicker diagnosis.
But it is not always preventable, you do not have to be a sunworshipper either, sometimes it is down to genetics.
Nov 15th 2009, 1:33 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
As you mentioned stats.... some info from my site, not from Google, JAD.
There are two main types of skin cancer, and skin cancer is almost totally preventable.
Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, with over 380,000 people diagnosed every year.
Deaths from Skin Cancer
Why the lower number of Deaths, per 1,000 population, in Australia ?
Because most people have an annual skin check to try to detect sun cancer early, and then have it treated before it becomes a major problem.
There are two main types of skin cancer, and skin cancer is almost totally preventable.
- malignant melanoma - cancer in moles
- the non-melanoma group - basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma
Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, with over 380,000 people diagnosed every year.
Deaths from Skin Cancer
- Australia = 1,678 deaths from 380,000 + reported cases : 4.4 per 1,000
- UK = 2,300+ deaths from 72,000 + reported cases : 31.9 per 1,000
Why the lower number of Deaths, per 1,000 population, in Australia ?
Because most people have an annual skin check to try to detect sun cancer early, and then have it treated before it becomes a major problem.
Nov 15th 2009, 1:36 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
Actually qlds sunday mail yesterday had 4 teens, and their sun damage, one 16 yr old had the skin age of 26. Kids go to a high with 2300 kids, not one comes out with hat or sunnies Mine wear sunblock and get teased for it, apparantly teens can detect it by smell/shine.
Mine wear sunblock and get teased for it, apparantly teens can detect it by smell/shine.
Nov 15th 2009, 1:40 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
I never stand in the sun but I get a bit from mowing. Need to watch it.
I used to get pink or sore in the UK. Never here!!
Nov 15th 2009, 2:36 pm
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Nov 15th 2009, 2:49 pm
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It was you that brought nit picking, stat posting, and the Moscow and Swindon sun into the thread.
All I asked was this...
Followed by your reply... and 'rolled eyes'
just because a question was asked...
Nov 15th 2009, 2:53 pm
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Of course it isn't....... Who said it was ?
The quote from the Cancer Council said "almost totally preventable"
You aren't trying to misquote me are you ? And you want the thread kept serious ? Yet you change my words to suit yourself !
Who said it was ?The quote from the Cancer Council said "almost totally preventable"
You aren't trying to misquote me are you ? And you want the thread kept serious ? Yet you change my words to suit yourself !
