Health
New warning as Aussie parents still ‘want a tan’ – Coffs Coast Advocate
Parents are still defying the sunsmart rules they learnt as children as skin cancer surges to become our third most common cancer in Australia.
An alarming one in four young parents admit they get sunburnt on a summer weekend and almost half say they like to get a tan, a new survey shows.
The generation that grew up with the famous ‘Slip, Slop, Slap’ jingle and Sid the Seagull have forgotten the message as they bring up their own children and could be putting them at risk.
Over 16,000 Australians will be diagnosed with melanoma this year and Cancer Australia predicts melanoma will climb from being our fourth to our third most commonly diagnosed…
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