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Article: Skin savvy. (prevention of melanoma)(includes related information)(Preventing Cancer: What We Know Today)
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- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
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Little is known about what causes melanoma. While it is clear that the risk of the other types of skin cancer rises in proportion to the cumulative amount of the time people has spent in the sun, the sun's role in the development of melanoma is less clear. People who spend lots of time in the sun (such as farmers) do not have elevated rates of melanoma, though they do have higher rates of squamous- and basal-cell carcinoma. And melanoma sometimes turns up on parts of the body rarely exposed to the sun (such as the buttocks and soles).
There is no such thing as a safe tan," says Darrel Rigor, M.D., clinical associate professor of dermatology at New York University, ...