Skin Cancer and malignant melanoma are most often consequences abusing of sun bath

Added: 11/21/2005

Modern fashion dictates the standard of beauty. Trying to keep up with the standard of people quite often are quite reckless with their health in order for the sake of illusive beauty. The consequences of the experiments with the appearances are very sad, so therefore trying to get a harmonious figure or fashionable bronze sunburn, it is necessary to reflect on the consequences and possible consequences seriously. Unfortunately, risking your health for such beauty frequently entails such serious diseases as skin cancer and malignant melanoma.

Beautiful skin is considered to be an obligation of female beauty and attractiveness. However for centuries, the concept of beautiful skin has been varied. Several centuries ago, the ideal female body was white, untouched, solar beam skin, without freckles and sunburn. Now, an all over the body sunburst is in fashion. Women and men who want to look like the ideal of beauty, lose weight, go out for sports, color their hair, pierce their bodies, and sunbathe. However, sometimes people overlook the fact that sunburst skin is not always equal to healthy skin. The pains that exit are not only counter-indicated of tanning, but plenty of side effects or negative consequences of long days in the sun or in a tanning bed.

One of the most dangerous and serious consequences of tanning is skin cancer. This disease arises for people with white skin and many spots on their pigment more often. Pigment sports are one of the most widespread sources of skin cancer. It is necessary that the tissue pigment sports have regenerated into a malignant tumor, cause by a push from the original push or irritant. The strongest irritant is long stays in the sun or on tanning beds. The ultra- violet irradiation in large doses causes permanent damage and change in skin cells, increasing the chances of developing the mutation processes that form skin cancer. Light-eyed and fair-haired people with blue, green, or gray, eyes are most at risk for the influence of mutation. People with freckles and pigment spots are part of the at risk group.

To avoid the occurrence of skin cancer or malignant melanoma, while under the influence of solar beams, it is necessary to observe some simple rules. It is categorically not recommended to sunbathe from 10:00 to 3:00. This period of time is the most dangerous because it is within this time frame that the sun is at it maximum point of activity. In this period of time, the skin isn't protected by the fabric of a bathing suit or an awing. If you can't wait until later to go outside then, you must protect yourself by putting on white or light colored clothing. Light color clothing reflects 20 percent of the ultra-violet beams. It is strictly forbidden for pregnant and breast feeding women to be under sun in the daytime. During pregnancy and breastfeeding, women's bodies and the bodies of their children are at the most risk for malignant tumors.

According to the latest medical statistical data, malignant tumors more often affect the bottom of men. Therefore, men in 4.9 percent of the cases suffer from malignant melanoma on the hips and in 6.7 percent of melanoma affects the shin. In women, the hip is affected with malignant melanoma in 6.7 of the cases and 26.3 percent of cases are located in the shin.

It is traditionally considered that skin cancer is one of the most difficult kinds of cancer to cure, however, at the same time, preventive maintenance for skin cancer in effective enough because it reduces the risk of occurrence by 40 percent. In the opinion of doctors, reducing the time spent under ultra-violet rays is the most effective way to prevent skin cancer and malignant melanoma.

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