May is skin cancer awareness month, and we are already a week into the month. So let's get started with some disturbing skin cancer facts (courtesy of the The Skin Cancer Foundation):
More than a million skin cancers are diagnosed each year. That is a disturbingly high number for a society that knows the primary causes of skin cancer!
Let us put this into perspective: Randomly pick four of your friends...or four of your family members. Now add yourself to this group. One in your group of five can expect to develop skin cancer over the course of a lifetime.
Skin cancer is more prevalent than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.
Women under the age of 40 have a higher probability of developing melanoma than any other cancer, except breast cancer.
There are many resources on the internet on skin cancer prevention and awareness.
Friday, May 8, 2009
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