A little while back, my Elite Daily article was translated and published on Germany's Huffington Post site. Wait a minute...still taking time to let that soak in. I have the upmost respect for the Huff Post as an online news aggregator, so it's truly such an honor to be featured and to have my message shared with readers on the other side of the world. Above all, it makes me SO hopeful that we can stop this nasty disease while it is still on the rise. In recent years, melanoma has become the most common form of cancer in men and women ages 25-29 years old. Specifically, the rate at which females 15-29 years old are being diagnosed with skin cancer is increasing more quickly than it ever has and UV tanning beds are a major contributor of that. Clearly, there is a reason that it is becoming the one of the fastest growing cancers in the U.S. whereas countries like Brazil and Australia ban UV tanning altogether. There are forms of cancers that seem unexplainable as of now -- breast cancer, brain cancer, the list goes on. What causes them? I don't know, I haven't be able to get a definitive answer yet. They say genetic mutation or environmental factors, but most of the time, there really is no way of telling. Just as smoking can cause lung cancer, sun exposure accounts for 90% of skin cancer cases. When it comes to skin cancer, there are so many ways to be preventative, it is time to take action! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE protect yourself in the sun.
To those of you who know German... http://www.huffingtonpost.de/sasha-farrell/es-ist-den-glanz-nicht-wert-ich-bekam-mit-23-hautkrebs_b_7910030.html