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Essential Sun Safety Awareness: Protect Your Skin from Harmful UV Rays

Join us for an informative session on sun safety, where we'll explore the skin, our body's largest organ, and understand its three layers: the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue. Learn about sunburn symptoms, effective treatments, and the importance of early skin cancer detection, including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Discover how to perform skin self-exams and the ABCDE screening method. We'll also share tips on using sunscreen effectively, understanding UV index levels, and adopting protective measures to keep your skin healthy and safe.

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Essential Sun Safety Awareness: Protect Your Skin from Harmful UV Rays

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  1. Sun Safety Information Session April 26, 2012

  2. The Skin • Our body’s largest organ • Three layers • Epidermis • Dermis • Subcutaneous

  3. Sunburns • Symptoms • Treatment • Peeling

  4. Skin Cancer • Basal Cell Carcinoma • Squamous Cell Carcinoma • Melanoma

  5. Basal Cell Carcinoma • The most common skin cancer • Abnormal, uncontrolled growths or lesions that arise in the skin’s basal cells, which lie in the deepest layer of the epidermis

  6. Squamous Cell Carcinoma • 2nd most common form of skin cancer • Usually occurs on the face, ears, neck, hands, or arm • Main symptom: growing bump that may have a rough, scaly surface and flat reddish patches

  7. Melanoma • The most dangerous form of skin cancer • Four main types of melanoma • Superficial spreading melanoma • Nodular melanoma • Lentigomaligna melanoma • Acrallentiginous melanoma

  8. Screening • ABCDEs • Asymmetry Diameter • Border Evolving • Color • Perform a skin self-exam • A visual inspection that you do of your skin. • A way for you to notice any bumps or spots that look abnormal in color, size, shape and texture • If ages 20 – 40 you should have a clinical exam to screen every 3 years • After age 40, every year

  9. Fun Sun Facts • Ultraviolet Rays • UVA • UVB • Sunscreen! • SPF 4 – 80 • Example: An SPF 15 sunscreen will allow a person to withstand the sun 15x longer than they would without sunscreen • Without sunscreen – burn in 10 minutes • With SPF 15 sunscreen – burn in 150 minutes • (SPF 15 x 10 min = 150 min in the sun) • Available in lotions, sprays, and gels

  10. Tips • Do not Burn • Avoid Sun Tanning and Tanning Beds • Generously apply sun screen • Wear protective clothing

  11. Tips Continued • Seek shade • Use extra caution near water, snow and sand • Check the UV index • Get Vitamin D safely

  12. Activity • Find out what the UV index for the area is today. Visit http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/uvindex.html for this information. • Name one preventative measure you can add to your sun safety routine.

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