Study shows lack of awareness of skin cancer among young people

More than 50,000 people aged between 16 and 54 from 20 different countries, including Spain, took part in the study

26 of June of 2024
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The youngsters are not still conscious of the damage that can cause the sun, and much less, of the cancer of skin. Like this it signals it the 'Study SAFE' (Sunscreen Assessment Family Experience) that makes by Pierre Fabre and Eau Thermale Avène. In this study have participated more than 50.000 people from among 16 and 54 years of 20 different countries, included Spain.

This study indicates why reasons the youngsters apply the protective solar: in 52% of the cases, the youngsters ensure that they apply the protective solar to avoid the burns, whereas 40% does it because it concerns him the appearance of his skin in the future, by what do it to brake the aging of the skin.

However, the youngsters seems that they are not still conscious of the grave damages that can ocasionar the solar exhibition. An excessive exhibition without taking the necessary cautions can derive to one of the three more frequent tumors between the European youngsters, as it is the cancer skin and as it indicates it the World Health Organisation (WHO). The solar overexposure is one of the main causes of apparition of some of the different types of cancer of skin that exist.

And it is that, as it has explained Alba Crespo, the Medical Advisor of Pierre Fabre Dermocosmética has explained that the "solar burns during the infancy is one of the main factors of risk for the development of cancer of skin like the melanoma".

In how much to the data referents to Spain, 74% of the boys, and 79% of the adults, expose in the sunlight in the greater hours of radiation, between the 11:00 and the 17:00 hours. Only 57% of the Spaniards uses the protective solar during the rest of the year.

The Medical Advisor of Pierre Fabre, has recognised that "the knowledge of the population has increased in the last years, but remains a lot for improving and visit. It is responsibility of all we, professional, sanitary and pharmaceutical industry do arrive to the general population the best information and possible products for concienciarles on the importance that has protect properly of the solar radiation".

The work that remains for doing raisin also by the public characters. In the last days, in Spain, a footballer has become tendency. And it has not been precisely by his concienciamiento about the solar protection. The player of football exposed in social networks which was his routine during the holidays and, in her, explained that it took the sun without protection during four hours. In his publication of Instagram, the footballer answered to one of the comments of his followers: "If you think that the cancer of skin appears by fault of the sun, are the king of the ignorant". Health, took split in this situation. It quoted one of the posts related with Marcos Llorente, the footballer, and left clear that the solar radiation is a causante direct of the melanoma.

A lot of Spanish organisations related with the health of the skin, like the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venerología (AEDV) also warned that it does not exist healthy solar callus and that the tendency to take the sun of progressive form without protection, with the idea that the skin generate resistance, is "to play with fire".

And it is that the solar callus has taken a lot of importance these last months. TikTok, the social network that creates tendencies, in healthy occasions and in other hurtful, does echo of her through some users that boost it. The solar callus, as they explain they, consists in that when taking the sun without applying protective cream can achieve generate cells healthier, reinforcing the immune system. With this solar exhibition, purportedly achieves that it fix the vitamin D that contributes the sun to the skin. Those that practise the "solar callus" also argue that this can avoid that the skin burn in summer when being under the sun, by what will not redden . The experts confirm the results of this practice, but warn of the serious problems for the health that can produce.