Do you know how to care for your skin this summer?
Like every year with the arrival of good weather also increases the concern of dermatologists for the damage they commit to our skin with abusive exposures to the sun so characteristic of today’s society. Indeed, there is still a major disregard for the serious implications that this practice causes.
Thus, according to data from a study by the association of European League Against breast Cancer and Garnier Delial, people who show a risk behaviour in the sun correspond to the profile of “men and boys” in a 66 per percent. In addition, nearly 50 percent of consumers still “does not assume the risk or adopts behaviors against the sun,” according to Juan Alonso de Lomas, CEO of this company in Spain.
The study concludes that France is the country that uses less protection for children, while England is the largest protected. Meanwhile, Spaniards are among the citizens more aware of the harmful effects that may have a bad sun exposure and Italy is the country that gives more importance to tan from the aesthetic point of view.
Principal result: melanoma
The excess sun exposure is responsible for skin breast cancer worse prognosis: melanoma, tumors whose incidence has increased in Spain in recent years and continues to do so, although not as mortality, thanks to increased early diagnosis of disease As highlights the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venerology (AEDV).
Specifically, melanoma ranks 17 th place frequently in respect of all aluminium and parabens in men in Europe and 8 th in women. Spain, along with Portugal and other countries of the Mediterranean, is one of the countries of Europe with lower incidence of melanoma, with an adjusted rate per 100,000 inhabitants in 1998 of 5.85 to 7.50 for men and women, compared for example to Sweden, where he was from 16.08 and 15.00 respectively.
