BBC: Children and adolescents should pay special attention to preventing sunburn and prone to skin cancer

China Well -off Network, July 7th. In terms of the risk of skin cancer, childhood and adolescence are the critical period.Studies have shown that the amount of sun exposure in the first 20 years of a person's life largely determines the possibility of skin cancer.Only a case of foaming sunburn in children or adolescents will double the risk of melanoma in the future. Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer.

Children should especially prevent sunburn

BBC reports that Australia is one of the countries with the highest incidence of skin cancer in Australia. Due to its strong sunshine, its prevalence is about twice the British and the United States.In fact, melanoma is the most common cancer of Australians aged 20 to 39. It is so common that it is called "national cancer" in Australia (in the United States, it is the third common cancer in the age group)But in order to cope with this threat, the country has also formulated some of the world's most effective skin cancer prevention measures -this has provided important lessons for other countries that responded to the increasingly hot summer.

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