Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
Nov 18th 2009, 3:28 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
That's partly because some chinese & japanese people believe that being whiter/paler is more attractive than being tanned/darker (which is associated with people from poorer, rural areas).
Nov 18th 2009, 3:34 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
Not realising that an umbrella is not going to stop them going brown nor getting UV rays.
May 30th 2010, 6:39 pm
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Re: Get your annual skin cancer checks!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10172892.stm
The rate of men dying from the deadliest form of skin cancer has doubled over the past three decades.
Figures from Cancer Research UK show a steep increase in deaths from malignant melanoma, especially in elderly men.
In the late 1970s fewer than 400 (1.5 per 100,000) men died from melanoma but that figure has now risen to over 1,100 (3.1 per 100,000).
Yet the cancer is preventable if people avoid sunburn and deal with 'worrying' moles early, the charity said.
The death rates for women have also risen, from 1.5 to 2.2 per 100,000.
Figures from Cancer Research UK show a steep increase in deaths from malignant melanoma, especially in elderly men.
In the late 1970s fewer than 400 (1.5 per 100,000) men died from melanoma but that figure has now risen to over 1,100 (3.1 per 100,000).
Yet the cancer is preventable if people avoid sunburn and deal with 'worrying' moles early, the charity said.
The death rates for women have also risen, from 1.5 to 2.2 per 100,000.
