How much sun time do you need to get skin cancer?
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at
6:56 am
Ninja Knight asked:
Many people I know don’t ever use sunscreen, and they don’t have skin cancer after becoming like 40 years old or more. Well explain how skin cancer is received.
Many people I know don’t ever use sunscreen, and they don’t have skin cancer after becoming like 40 years old or more. Well explain how skin cancer is received.
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Hi Zeus:
I don’t know how every one else got there’s but I know
I live in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas I use to be
out in the sun all the time. I used sun screen most of the
time But one summer I was at lake mead and I got a real
bad sun burn. I pealed several times the doctor said it
was dangerous to burn that bad. Well a few years ago
a mole on my cheek changed color shape and size.
I went to see the dermatologist who removed several
spots of cancer right away and this one was so big
he had a plastic surgeon remove it. But that is how
I got skin cancer. When you are out in Direct sun
and near the water you get it twice.
There isn’t a timetable for this sort of thing.
No one knows how anyone gets cancer. Sun exposure is the biggest risk factor for skin cancer, but it is only a risk factor and it is only one risk factor. It does not mean you or anyone else will necessarily get skin cancer.
I live in southern California a few miles from the beach I had tan lines year around from the time I was about 8 years old until I was 28 years old. I have never used sunscreen in my life. In fact in high school I used baby oil. I am over 40 and do not have skin cancer.
On the other hand I had a case earlier this year with a 4 month-old baby with metastatic melanoma. He died at 9 months old. He had little sun exposure in his short little life and he had no risk factors. This is an extremely rare case, but they do happen and we don’t know why.
Skin cancer is the most common cancer
diagnosed in Australia. More than 430,000
Australians are treated a year for skin cancers.
Of these, over 10,500 new cases of melanoma
are diagnosed. Each year there are around 1600
deaths from melanoma and non-melanoma skin
cancer. Australia and New Zealand have the
highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
The major cause of skin cancer is too much exposure to
ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. Skin can burn in as little
as 15 minutes in the summer sun so it is important to protect
your skin from UV radiation.
Avoid using solariums or sunbeds, which emit harmful levels
of UV radiation up to five times as strong as the summer
midday sun.
Skin cancer is largely preventable. Be SunSmart. Protect
yourself against sun damage and skin cancer.
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