sunbuddy can help fight skin cancer

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Sun protection is important to your health year round. UV rays are not just dangerous on sunny summer days, they can also damage your skin in the winter and on cloudy days. When outdoors it is important to use sunscreens rated SPF 15 or higher when wanting lower your chances of developing skin cancer. Sunscreen should be applied liberally, uniformly, and frequently.

Skin Cancer Facts according to The Skin Cancer Foundation:

• More than 1.5 million people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year.
• One in 5 Americans will get skin cancer in the course of a lifetime
• One person dies every hour from skin cancer, primarily melanoma
• Regular use of sun protection throughout childhood can reduce the risk of skin cancer by 80%.
• Putting proven cancer prevention and early detection techniques into action could eliminate at least 100,000 cancer cases and 60,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. each year

Learn more about skin cancer by visiting skincancer.org

Skin Cancer reaches epidemic proportions

Skin Cancer has reached epidemic proportions worldwide over the past several years.  Skin Cancer is the most common cancer of all – and some of it deadly.

The most common type, known as basal-cell carcinoma, numbers 800,000 annual cases.  The next most common type is squamous-cell carcinoma, with about 400,000 new cases a year.

Melanoma, a cancer that forms in the skin’s pigment cells, is the type that’s potentially deadly, killing about 8,000 Americans annually. It’s an equal-opportunity illness, with an estimated 34,950 cases diagnosed last year in men and an estimated 27,530 in women (National Institute for Health, April 2009).

Worse yet, the rate of melanoma, the most dangerous of skin cancers is doubling every 8 years.  In fact the lifetime chance of getting skin cancer is 1 in 5.  Using sunscreen  faithfully your whole life will cut your risks [of incurring skin cancer] dramatically.”

With the damaging effects of the sun illustrated by the medical profession and throughout the news, usage of sun screen has become a necessity. A culture once enamored with a golden tan is increasingly aware of not only premature aging of skin often associated with continuous sun exposure, but with the long-term danger of skin cancer as a result of unprotected exposure.