In combating cancer, we sometimes need to change our lifestyles. This should include reducing the number of beach vacations, according to data published by a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
The article in the publication, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention cites results of a study that vacationing at the shore led to a 5 percent increase in nevi, or "moles", among 7-year-old children.
Why it this important? Maybe because the number of nevi developed by people is a major risk factor for malignant melanoma, which is the deadliest variant of skin cancer.
The lead author of the study, Lori Crane, Ph.D., M.P.H., chair of the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, recommends that young children be kept indoors from 10am to 4pm to decrease their risk of getting skin cancer.
Melanoma rates have been rapidly rising. More than 62,000 Americans are diagnosed with melanoma each year; more than 8,000 Americans die from it as well.
Read more at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203080721.htm
The article in the publication, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention cites results of a study that vacationing at the shore led to a 5 percent increase in nevi, or "moles", among 7-year-old children.
Why it this important? Maybe because the number of nevi developed by people is a major risk factor for malignant melanoma, which is the deadliest variant of skin cancer.
The lead author of the study, Lori Crane, Ph.D., M.P.H., chair of the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, recommends that young children be kept indoors from 10am to 4pm to decrease their risk of getting skin cancer.
Melanoma rates have been rapidly rising. More than 62,000 Americans are diagnosed with melanoma each year; more than 8,000 Americans die from it as well.
Read more at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203080721.htm
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