Your chances of getting skin cancer are much higher than for your parents. Your children are even more likely have skin cancer than you are. Your grandchildren will almost certainly have skin cancer. This is because of the decrease of our ozone layer due to climate change.
The ozone layer is our protection from ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet light causes things like skin cancer that we do not want. Light colored animals or those with light spots, especially in their ears and noses, are also at great risk from skin cancer.
The numbers of people getting skin cancer has risen so much that it is called an epidemic by skin doctors, or dermatologists. Malignant melanoma, one type of skin cancer, can kill a human being in as little as two weeks.
One little outbreak of Zika, Ebola, or bird flu gets more attention than the ongoing epidemic of skin cancer, that kills many more people. It is time for this to change. It is better to pay more attention to something that is more likely to kill you and your loved ones sooner, like skin cancer. I am not saying that exotic and scary diseases should be ignored, but it just makes sense to pay attention to something more likely to be an immediate problem for you.
Skin cancer is a problem that you can do something about. The solutions to lowering your risk of multiple skin cancer lesions are not even difficult. This is a problem that you can solve yourself, for yourself. You can also unmercifully badger your loved ones about it to keep them safer.
Here is a link to give you some of the basics about ozone and the holes in our ozone layer:
First ozone hole found over Arctic: from the archive, 31 March 1995
The Center for Disease Control is a part of the United States Goverrnment that exists to help stop and control disease. They deal with Ebola, Zika and bird flu, along with our skin cancer epidemic. It is a huge site that can be a real chore dealing with just because it is so very big. It is a great source of information anyway, and worthwhile to become a little familiar with. A lot of disasters will make the information from the CDC very important to you and your loved ones. One reason is because disease usually follows most disasters, due to problems keeping clean. Another reason is that the CDC has lots of information that you can use to prevent ongoing problems like skin cancer.
Here is a link that you can use right now, to a little part of the CDC site about skin cancer:
CDC Press Releases
Here is a link to information about malignant melanoma with some pictures of what it looks like:
Cutaneous Melanoma: Background, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology
Here is a slide show of melanoma pictures: Cutaneous Melanoma: Background, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology
You can see from the pictures that malignant melanoma does not look very impressive or exciting, but those little things can still kill you too fast for you to ignore them. This does not mean you need to panic over every freckle or mole on your body, but you can compare them to the pictures and not ignore them.
My father had fairly dark skin, but he nevertheless had a great number of skin cancers. He stopped counting when he had over 150 of them removed. He told me that the 150 skin cancers reoved was less than half of the total removed from his skin in his lifetime. That means that he had over 300 skin cancers removed in his lifetime. He was a disabled veteran who was injured in the line of duty, so he did not have to pay for most of his skin care. Most people are not so fortunate about their medical costs.
I have to get some other stuff done, but plan to write more about the skin cancer and ozone layer problem. It seems especially important to me for you to know what you can do so you can lower your skin cancer risk. It will most likely take me at least another day to finish writing about it, and it will need to go into at least one more post to cover it. It seems to be easier for more people to digest information if they don't get too much new stuff in one post. Sorry if you can handle more than average, but we have to do what we can to help more people.
The ozone layer is our protection from ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet light causes things like skin cancer that we do not want. Light colored animals or those with light spots, especially in their ears and noses, are also at great risk from skin cancer.
The numbers of people getting skin cancer has risen so much that it is called an epidemic by skin doctors, or dermatologists. Malignant melanoma, one type of skin cancer, can kill a human being in as little as two weeks.
One little outbreak of Zika, Ebola, or bird flu gets more attention than the ongoing epidemic of skin cancer, that kills many more people. It is time for this to change. It is better to pay more attention to something that is more likely to kill you and your loved ones sooner, like skin cancer. I am not saying that exotic and scary diseases should be ignored, but it just makes sense to pay attention to something more likely to be an immediate problem for you.
Skin cancer is a problem that you can do something about. The solutions to lowering your risk of multiple skin cancer lesions are not even difficult. This is a problem that you can solve yourself, for yourself. You can also unmercifully badger your loved ones about it to keep them safer.
Here is a link to give you some of the basics about ozone and the holes in our ozone layer:
First ozone hole found over Arctic: from the archive, 31 March 1995
The Center for Disease Control is a part of the United States Goverrnment that exists to help stop and control disease. They deal with Ebola, Zika and bird flu, along with our skin cancer epidemic. It is a huge site that can be a real chore dealing with just because it is so very big. It is a great source of information anyway, and worthwhile to become a little familiar with. A lot of disasters will make the information from the CDC very important to you and your loved ones. One reason is because disease usually follows most disasters, due to problems keeping clean. Another reason is that the CDC has lots of information that you can use to prevent ongoing problems like skin cancer.
Here is a link that you can use right now, to a little part of the CDC site about skin cancer:
CDC Press Releases
Here is a link to information about malignant melanoma with some pictures of what it looks like:
Cutaneous Melanoma: Background, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology
Here is a slide show of melanoma pictures: Cutaneous Melanoma: Background, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology
You can see from the pictures that malignant melanoma does not look very impressive or exciting, but those little things can still kill you too fast for you to ignore them. This does not mean you need to panic over every freckle or mole on your body, but you can compare them to the pictures and not ignore them.
My father had fairly dark skin, but he nevertheless had a great number of skin cancers. He stopped counting when he had over 150 of them removed. He told me that the 150 skin cancers reoved was less than half of the total removed from his skin in his lifetime. That means that he had over 300 skin cancers removed in his lifetime. He was a disabled veteran who was injured in the line of duty, so he did not have to pay for most of his skin care. Most people are not so fortunate about their medical costs.
I have to get some other stuff done, but plan to write more about the skin cancer and ozone layer problem. It seems especially important to me for you to know what you can do so you can lower your skin cancer risk. It will most likely take me at least another day to finish writing about it, and it will need to go into at least one more post to cover it. It seems to be easier for more people to digest information if they don't get too much new stuff in one post. Sorry if you can handle more than average, but we have to do what we can to help more people.
