EXCESS OF SUNSHINE
Skin Cancer Caused
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, February 26. Sunshine kills one Australian a day, a specialist said yesterday.
The president of the Dermatological Association, Dr. W. H. Ward, told a cancer conference in Sydney that 95 per cent of skin cancer, from which more than 350 Australians died each year, was caused by excessive exposure to sunlight.
The incidence of skin cancer in Australia was at least 20 times greater than in Britain, and many times more than in Texas or California. “Constant exposure to the sun ages the skin relentlessly, and, by the age of 40, nearly all the men and women in this country show the damage done by the exposure,” Dr. Ward said. “The skin tends to lose Its smoothness and elasticity, wrinkles appear and the leathery texture denotes the changes in the underlying tissues.”
Dr. Ward said children and outdoor workers in Australia should be educated to wear hats and use protective creams to prevent skin cancer and so reduce its death toll.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30686, 27 February 1965, Page 15
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