To Our UK Male Friends: Please Wear Sunscreen!
May 18, 2006 by admin
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
UK male deaths from skin cancer (melanoma) had risen 31% in the past ten years to over 1000 deaths a year.
More men than women die of melanoma because the cancer is detected at advanced stages, and men may be less aware of changes in moles than women are.
In Britain, each year almost 2000 people (almost half are men) die from melanoma. Melanoma has become the second most prevalent cancer after prostate cancer in the UK. More alarming is how melanoma incidence is almost doubling every 10-20 years in countries with predominantly white populations.
What many may not realize is how this disease is cumulative, meaning you can develop it over the span of your life time. Sunburns and blistering (peeling) sunburns are bad, bad, bad.
Kids here in BC are already slathering on the sunscreen … and I agree, I’ve already had a couple spots removed.
They have enough sun in the UK for skin cancer? I’m surprised
My back is a mass of scars from the many moles I’ve had to have cut out over the years, mainly from exposure in my childhood. Here in Australia sunscreen is a must, I never let me son go outside during most of the year without having it on.
Duncan that is funny!
I agree with you about sunscreen as a must in Australia! I used to work for a biotech company that was trying to commercialize a melanoma cancer vaccine and they were looking at Australia as a commercial market because of the high incidence of melanoma.