Sun Safety Week 2013

The first week of June is Sun Safety Week. Are you getting too much sun? Overexposure to the sun can result in skin cancer later in life. Consider these statistics and your own exposure risks to the sun’s harmful UV rays.

• You can sunburn even on a cloudy day!
• More than 90% of skin cancers occur on sun-exposed skin.
• On average, children get 3 times more exposure than adults!
• Eighty percent of a person’s lifetime sun exposure is estimated to occur by age 18!
• One blistering sunburn can double a child’s lifetime risk of developing skin cancer!
• More than 1 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year in the US!
• Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, kills one person every hour!