Posted on 04/18/2006 4:17:39 PM PDT by tbird5
There is an unrecognized epidemic of skin cancer underway in the United States, the American Academy of Dermatology warns.
One in five Americans will develop skin cancer, and a person's risk of the disease doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns, according to a report in the April issue of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter.
Basal and squamous cell carcinomas, the most common and treatable types of skin cancers, had long been considered a problem only for people over 50, according to the report. But Mayo Clinic researchers found that the percentage of women under 40 with the more common type, basal cell, tripled between 1976 and 2003, while the rate of squamous cell cancers increased four-fold
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This is the price they pay for a tan. I'm lucky in that I'm a man and I keep everything covered while in public, save my hands and face.
Skin Cancer AKA Melanoma is a very unforgiving disease it can kill you.
Find a good Dermatologist who knows how to deal with this disease and if you are diagnost go to an Oncologist who specializes in Melanoma for follow treatment.
If you are lucky & catch it early, you will be able to deal with it hopefully!
If you wait and its gets out of control, it can metastisize to any part of your body & eventually take you down!
(Melanin-Deficit Disorder)
ping
It's the cellpbones and the iPods -- I predicted this 8 years ago!
I had a basal cell cancer removed from my nose last year but, I'm 62.
Every time I used them, I would get sun-poisoning on the same 2 spots on my face. If I stopped using them and went back to baby oil with a few drops of iodine, like we used back in the 40's-50's - they cleared right up and didn't come back.
I'm not saying you shouldn't use sunscreen - it's up to you . But it seemed to cause a chemical reaction that caused trouble for me.
I think diet has a lot to do with skin cancer too....
I don't think rubbing mayo on your skin is a good way to treat skin cancer.
yep
Folks don't make fun. There are many young girls that will pay the price after a latent period of 5-20 years. Another problem is the UVB rays from tanning beds cause immune suppression and a consequent increase in infections, especially the respiratory type.
IMHO, tanning beds with high UVB emission should be banned.
5 or more sunburns?
well i'm screwed :)
Too many summer days on the baseball field for me :)
This is the price they pay for a tan. I'm lucky in that I'm a man and I keep everything covered while in public, save my hands and face.
For the life of me I cannot understand why folks think that looking several shades darker than they were born is somehow desirable. The OldPossum in his youth had light, tender skin, and throughout a lifetime of avoiding the sun's rays has succeeded in keeping it that way.
There's a side benefit in having done this: NO WINKLES.
My husband has had melanoma,caught very early. Two of my three kids have lots of moles and have to be checked constantly. Has anyone heard of an internal melanoma? A friend of ours died of melanoma and the diagonis was that it was internal. If so, very scary.
>> person's risk of the disease doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns <<
If that's the case, I should be dead already. I would always get a nasty sunburn EVERY summer when I was a kid, then it would turn to a deep tan.
The leading cause of death is....BIRTH! Get over it. We will all die, just a question of when and how.
When I was a teen, we lived at Jones Beach, on Long Island and slathered on baby oil and used tin foil to direct those tanning rays. Who knew?
5 or more? I wonder what 50 or more does? My Northern European heritage left me a bright pink every time I used to spend more than a couple of hours in the sun. I even used to work as a life guard at the beach.
A true Zen saying...and true.
FMCDH(BITS)
More like tanning beds and water parks.
Cellphones and iPods don't have the right radiation to cause melanoma.
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