May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Summer is right around the corner so it’s no surprise that May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. The focus of the campaign is to highlight prevention, early detection, and treatment of skin cancer. In the US, each year, two million people are diagnosed with nonmelanoma skin cancers (mostly basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas). These cancers, while highly treatable, can lead to disfigurement when left untreated. The most deadly form of skin cancer is Malignant melanoma with 57,000 diagnosed and 9000 deaths from the disease in 2008. This figure continues to rise.
RePin to Stop Skin Cancer
Each year, a blogger I try to post about the Skin Cancer Awareness cause in May. As Blog readers and Bloggers, I am asking you to do your part to Stop Skin Cancer. You can protect yourself by avoiding prolonged exposure to the sun and staying out of tanning beds. When you must be in the sun, cover up, wear and reapply sunscreen, and don’t forget your hat. You can help protect others by Repinning (to Pinterest) any or ALL of the following Skin Cancer Quotes to increase awareness as we roll into the summer months.
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pale is the new tan. as a redhead, i’ve been preaching this for years 🙂
Pale is the new tan
Remember that it’s not all the sun that causes melanoma. Gentics play a part in it also. My sister, myself and 2 of my daughters have all had it. mine was under my bra. the doctor took a 4 inch circle of skin all they way to the muscle and two limp nodes. now it’s every three months to the skin doctor and every 6 months to the the surgern.
I “pined it”.
the 10 am to 4pm
I always make sure I am wearing sunblock when outside.
Pale is the New Tan.
Pale Is The New Tan is my favorite.
Very witty: Pale is the new tan.
Love pale is the new tan. After a couple of bad burns that I suffered myself, I agree!
My favorite is the Pale Is The New Tan!
I love to tan and try to do so responsibly because I really do know better-Melanoma in the family 🙁 This is a great post, knowledge is power!
I love the saying that pale is the new tan!
I like “the hours between 10am and 4pm are the most hazardous for UV exposure. Good reminders
I love that you have posted this !! My fave. is the “Pale Is the New Tan”. I think it’s a catchy way to get the message out to a broader crowd!
i like the pale is the new tan
I like the ban tanning bed use for miners
pale is the new tan
Ban Tanning Bed Use For Minors! Such a good idea, I couldn’t believe at my sons 8th grade graduation how many of the girls in his class looked like they had spent a month on a beach somewhere. Sad.
Pale is the new tan 🙂
LOVE that “pale is the new tan” – I survived breast cancer, and also had precancerous melanoma . . . now cultivating that lovely pale Scandinavian look!