Melanoma is on the increase in Britain

Cases of skin cancer more than triple - Sunday Telegraph

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"Deadly cases of skin cancer are rising dramatically across Britain as people spend more time outdoors, experts have revealed.

The incidence of malignant melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, has soared by almost 20 per cent in two years in the warmest parts of the country.

Dr Sandeep Cliff, a consultant dermatologist, said that Britain's culture had not adjusted to cope with increasingly hot summers. The doctor from East Surrey Hospital, in Redhill, said: "We get one hot day and everyone gets half-naked. In other countries which are used to the sun, they cover up and avoid the mid-day sun."

Government figures show malignant melanoma is the UK's fastest growing cancer, with rates tripling in the three decades to 2003, the latest year for which national statistics are held.
But a conference of the British Association of Dermatology (BAD) will learn this week that since 2003 the rise in skin cancer cases has been even higher. The latest research shows that in Cornwall there has been an increase of 18 per cent in the number of cases between 2003 and 2005.

Researchers say the West Country is particularly vulnerable to skin cancer as its naturally fair-skinned population struggles to cope with increasingly hot summers."

If you are obese/overweight, your skin is likely to be overstretched and thinner than normal and so you will be more sensitive to the sun. - You would find it helpful to reduce your intake of salt and salty foods because this would reduce the fluid retention which has caused your excess weight, and your skin would become less overstretched/vulnerable/fragile/sensitive to the sun.

It may well be that the increasing incidence of obesity is a contributory factor in the rise of melanomas.

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