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Create the Skin Cancer Education in Your Community

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Impact Melanoma
Create the Skin Cancer Education in Your Community

As dreadful as Melanoma Cancer is, it can be stem down through combine efforts of the World Health Organization in conjunction with the various governments of nations, NGOs efforts, and other voluntary bodies. If more attention and concerns are geared in this direction, are shown, the world can heave a sigh of relief over skin cancer.

Skin Cancer Education seems to be the best way to attack and combat this dreaded disease. Arguably, many people in many communities of the world are yet in the full knowledge of what skin cancer or melanoma is, or the causes, treatment, and prevention.

Using Education to fight Skin Cancer Menace

How best to stem down the danger of skin cancer or melanoma rests on proper skin cancer education by creating awareness especially in identified vulnerable communities or regions. Using education and constant awareness drive will enlighten more people across the globe about the danger of this killer disease.

People should be tutored on such factors as:

  • How to prevent skin cancer
  • The danger of skin cancer
  • The causes
  • The early signs and early treatment
  • How to manage skin cancer when it is detected
  • The dos and don’ts of skin cancer

How to create and spread an effective skin cancer education

Ignorance, negligence, vague or total lack knowledge, lack of support, and other underlining factors may hamper the fight against skin cancer education in some cases.

  • To achieve a perfect scenario, skin cancer education centers can be set up in communities, local areas, and even in bus or train stations, shopping centers, and other accessible places. People can walk into any of such centers to learn more about skin cancer.
  • Lectures and tutorials programs can be set up and taken to local communities where sunburn and skin cancer experts talk to people and enlighten them on the danger, causes, prevention, early signs, treatment, and other nitty-gritty.
  • Advocate for more support for skin cancer victims from government, corporations, and melanoma charity.
  • Enlighten people on how to prevent and avoid what can cause skin cancer such as excessive exposure to Ultra-Violet rays of the sunlight. Also, the danger of walking in the blazing sun and addiction to sunbath. Educate people on the use of Sunscreens and its advantages.

How to prevent the spread of sunburn and skin cancer

Usually, many families choose to take an occasional walk from one place of interest to another. This can result in sunburn while continuous exposure of the skin, especially during summer can lead to skin cancer.

The introduction of Sunscreen dispensers in certain public areas such as parks, children’s playgrounds, bus stations, and train stations can help people to avoid exposing their skin to the UV rays.

If sunscreen dispensing stations can be mandatorily placed in every public place where people can dispense and apply sunscreen to mat exposed part of the body such as the face, arms, and legs, it will go a long way to prevent skin cancer.

Providing support for skin cancer survivors is another way to stem down the agony effects of skin cancer. Skin cancer survivors can join a support group like Impactmelanoma.org nearest to them.

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