Health
How to protect against skin cancer at different stages of your life – Women’s Agenda
Regardless of what stage you are at in your life – start and commit to daily sun protection. Here are some tips from Dr Annika Smith.
Australians aren’t strangers to messaging around skin health. We know the “slip, slop, slap” mantra and that “tanning is skin cells in trauma”, yet skin cancer cases in this country are still overwhelmingly caused by excess ultraviolet radiation (a carcinogen) from the sun.
2 out of 3 Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by age 70.
To break it down further, skin cancer can be divided into melanoma and non melanoma skin cancer. The latter includes basal cell carcinoma (BCC)…
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