Comments on: Sunscreen and melanoma http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/sunscreen-and-melanoma.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/sunscreen-and-melanoma.html#comment-77463 Anonymous Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/sunscreen-and-melanoma.html#comment-77463 For women, one reason for using sunscreen at least on faces is to protect skin for premature ageing. Looks are important.<br/><br/>One study I'd like to see is the incidence of non-skin cancers in people who use sunscreen or not, given the protective effect of vitamin D. For women, one reason for using sunscreen at least on faces is to protect skin for premature ageing. Looks are important.

One study I’d like to see is the incidence of non-skin cancers in people who use sunscreen or not, given the protective effect of vitamin D.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/sunscreen-and-melanoma.html#comment-77461 Anonymous Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/sunscreen-and-melanoma.html#comment-77461 It might be disingenuous to suggest sunscreen can completely prevent melanoma, but women pay far more attention to melanoma than basal or squamous carcinomas -- my parents' tennis leagues have around a 90% occurrence of the latter, and they're in their mid-fifties and early sixties. SCC or BCC aren't something they'll put on sunscreen to prevent (and wouldn't have in their younger years). An appeal to both vanity and melanoma is far more likely to succeed.<br/><br/>Interesting to note that the results from the Nambour Skin Cancer Study have just arrived and show at least some unanticipated protective effect of sunscreen against melanoma. It might be disingenuous to suggest sunscreen can completely prevent melanoma, but women pay far more attention to melanoma than basal or squamous carcinomas — my parents’ tennis leagues have around a 90% occurrence of the latter, and they’re in their mid-fifties and early sixties. SCC or BCC aren’t something they’ll put on sunscreen to prevent (and wouldn’t have in their younger years). An appeal to both vanity and melanoma is far more likely to succeed.

Interesting to note that the results from the Nambour Skin Cancer Study have just arrived and show at least some unanticipated protective effect of sunscreen against melanoma.

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