viernes, 25 de abril de 2014

Package holiday boom's deadly legacy: Huge rise in skin cancer cases since 1970s blamed on sunshine getaways



This article explains that in the past 40 years cases of skin cancer have rise by 7 times.
It also tells us that 13000 people per year suffer from malignant melanoma. 
Now skin cancer is the fifth highest cancer in the world specially in women of 20 years old. 
Experts think that the fashion of package holiday of the years 60-70 they have the blame.

This cancer can start if one time when you are young and you burn and appeares later in life. If we continue with the obsession that we are brown the numers of people with this cancer will rise.  

It also mentions that sunbeds are very dangerous for this type of cancer because exaggerate the obsession of sunbathing .
Cancer Research UK think that by 2027 the numbers of this cancer increase from 13000 to 20000.
Every year 2000 people die of skin cancer in U.K.  

In my opinion this article is very important  and I believe that this article should be read all over the world. It is true that when summer arrives  everyone wants a suntan and a lot of times people do not think the consequences.  
Is very important to put suncream every time  when you sunbathe.



Cases of skin cancer have soared seven-fold, research shows, with many of those being diagnosed suffering cancer-causing sun burn in their youth (library image) 



                                                                  13,000 people every year develop a deadly malignant melanoma, pictured, which is expected to surge to 20,000 annually by 2027. In 1975, the figure was just 1,800



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