How to prevent skin Cancer and Diseases

The first thing to know about this type of cancer is that the sooner you detect it, the better the chances of cure.

Now, while love sunbathing as brighten the skin and media exposure help fight diseases such as asthma, the truth is that taking too much of the sun radiation (ultraviolet rays) can have an effect negative on your health. much so that excessive tanning is the main reason for this cancer.

Learn how to use the sun!

So the dermatologist told us Angela Seidel, president of the Colombian Association of Dermatology, who also gave us these lessons to prevent skin cancer:

• Apply sunscreen every day.
• Remember that sunlight at any time of the year and not just during the summer is just as harmful.
• Use protective gear such as hats, long sleeves and goggles.
• Avoid 'rush hour' of radiation (10a.m. to 3 pm) especially noon.
• No "burst into achicharrarse". 
• Try not to use tanning beds.
• Note that the skin damage is cumulative. The Colombian League Against Cancer today warns that heat stroke can bring a cancer years later.
• No smoking.

If we use these guidelines not only cancer but also avoid the 'photoaging' (freckles, age spots and wrinkles). "These are the worst because they are completely irreversible," says Seidel.

In addition you must be more cautious if you are: skin, eyes and light hair and your tan with difficulty, if you have many moles (more than 50), if you also have congenital moles (birth) or atypical (wide, irregular) and if you have family or yourself if you've had a serious cancer, if you had a severe sunburn in childhood or adolescence, if you develop outdoor work or if a lesion on the face skin color grows slowly.

How to identify it?

First of all there are two types of skin cancer:

• Carcinomas: more frequent but less severe. They appear most often after age 50, usually on the exposed parts of the body (face, back, forearms, hands ...). 95% of cases are curable if caught early.
• Melanoma: fearsome, the most serious and increasingly prevalent. It can be diagnosed in people of any age but is very rare in children. It can be located anywhere in the body, but between us, we are mestizos, melanoma most often occurs in the nail and the soles of the feet.

Benign or malignant cancers are shown in a non-healing wound, a scab grain or a sore that persists and is modified, while melanoma is manifested in two ways: by the appearance of a small pigmented spot on the skin healthy or modification of a mole we've always had.

Skin self-exam!

Do it at least three times a year and head to toe. Follow these steps:

• Watch yourself in a mirror completely and carefully with raised arms, front, back and sides.
• Check the forearms and palms.
• Inspect the back of the legs, the spaces between the toes, the soles of the feet and genitals.
• With the help of another mirror tracks behind the neck and scalp (bay by bay).
• Finally seen the lower back and buttocks.

Remember, skin cancer is not painful or itchy, so before any anomaly consult a dermatologist.

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