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You'd think a place with significantly less sun than Florida and Texas would have the lowest reported number of cases in the country. Oddly enough, Washington and Oregon have among the highest rates in the country.
Does anyone have a clue as to how that could be?
You'd think a place with significantly less sun than Florida and Texas would have the lowest reported number of cases in the country. Oddly enough, Washington and Oregon have among the highest rates in the country.
Does anyone have a clue as to how that could be?
Low vitamin D. People have been scare-mongered into staying out of the sun. It is a myth that sun alone causes cancer or wrinkles, we have evolved under the sun. I live in Florida and get 60 to 90 minutes per day on my bike wearing only coconut oil. But I have a healthy lifestyle. Sun is anti-microbial in addition to manufacturing your Vitamin D. It is those people who have an unhealthy lifestyle, (smoking, processed foods, poor hydration, etc) who tend to have too many toxins. The people I have known here with skin cancer were those who never got sun, and/or got cancer where it was NEVER EXPOSED to the sun.
By the way, I maintain a nice medium golden tan and at 64 have virtually NO wrinkles and have been told I look up to 20 or more years younger than my age (by my doctors).
Low vitamin D. People have been scare-mongered into staying out of the sun. It is a myth that sun alone causes cancer or wrinkles, we have evolved under the sun. I live in Florida and get 60 to 90 minutes per day on my bike wearing only coconut oil. But I have a healthy lifestyle. Sun is anti-microbial in addition to manufacturing your Vitamin D. It is those people who have an unhealthy lifestyle, (smoking, processed foods, poor hydration, etc) who tend to have too many toxins. The people I have known here with skin cancer were those who never got sun, and/or got cancer where it was NEVER EXPOSED to the sun.
By the way, I maintain a nice medium golden tan and at 64 have virtually NO wrinkles and have been told I look up to 20 or more years younger than my age (by my doctors).
At age 68, having lived in OH, IL and CO, I developed a carcinoma on top of my right foot. (SCC, Stage 1 in-situ) . Had it removed by MOHS surgery. All my life that foot was never exposed to the sun for any appreciable period of time. And I had been on Dr recommended Vit D supplement for previous 10 years.
Low vitamin D. People have been scare-mongered into staying out of the sun. It is a myth that sun alone causes cancer or wrinkles, we have evolved under the sun. I live in Florida and get 60 to 90 minutes per day on my bike wearing only coconut oil. But I have a healthy lifestyle. Sun is anti-microbial in addition to manufacturing your Vitamin D. It is those people who have an unhealthy lifestyle, (smoking, processed foods, poor hydration, etc) who tend to have too many toxins. The people I have known here with skin cancer were those who never got sun, and/or got cancer where it was NEVER EXPOSED to the sun.
By the way, I maintain a nice medium golden tan and at 64 have virtually NO wrinkles and have been told I look up to 20 or more years younger than my age (by my doctors).
Easy to get burned at beginning of summer when you've been in low uv conditions for 8 months. Also possibly more people visiting dermatologists? I know it takes about 4 months to get in to see one here (NW Washington), so they are obviously staying busy. Plus theres a lot more white people here than a lot of southern areas of the country.
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that they don't wear sunscreen because they think clouds act as a uv protectant?
Can u post a link to that study
I tend to agree with this assessment. I know when I lived in Oregon I never put on sunscreen nor thought it necessary due to the lack of sunshine most of the time.
It is true though that there are 3-6 month waiting lists for most dermatologist; at least around Portland.
I am sure there are a lot of factors: 1-not using as much sun screen: 2-many who live in the region were not raised there. The damage we are seeing in our skin now has more to do with our childhood and teen years than the past 5 or 10, 3-maybe people in the Pacific NoWest consult with derm more than in some other regions and last but not least; family history. Remember most of us have parents who never used sun screen, some lived on farms and spent hours a day in the sun, thus the expression farmers tan and yet, most did not have skin cancers; why, because they never even went to the doctor to be tested. I wonder how many really did have them.
There is actually more sun in the PNW than you would think. The cloudy days tend to be packed into the cooler half of the year, when solar intensity is lowest. People are sun-starved in winter, but July and August are pretty darn sunny, with very little rain, right when the solar angle is highest and days longest. It is feast or famine for sun. And east of the Cascades in both states is much, much drier and sunnier. If you can imagine a bunch of English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Germans heading out on the Oregon Trail, you can image the core population would be fair folks vulnerable to skin cancer. Much of the Southwest, which is generally sunnier, has a much larger Hispanic element, so perhaps that is a factor.
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