Who Protects Your Children From The Sun More

Who Protects Your Children From The Sun More.
Common learning holds that adults who've wise the trauma of melanoma would go to greater lengths to safeguard their children from the sun's rays. But a new study shows that nearly half of parents who were also melanoma survivors said their descendant had experienced a sunburn over the previous year. "Sunburns were common all the children in our study despite their elevated risk for skin cancer," study author Dr Beth Glenn, an allied professor of health policy and management at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a university item release.

Sunburn is a major risk for the most deadly type of veneer cancer, and children of survivors are at increased risk for developing the disease as adults. They surveyed 300 fair-skinned and Hispanic melanoma survivors with children aged 17 or younger. The parents were asked about their attitudes nearing melanoma prevention, how they rated their children's risk for the disease, and the Sol protection methods they used for their children.

Many parents said they relied on sunscreen to care for their children from the sun, with fewer saying their children wore hats or sunglasses, or tried to recoup shade. The researchers also found that 43 percent of the parents said their child had a sunburn in the olden times year. "Protecting kids against the sun's harmful rays at an early age is vitally important. Our objective is to develop an intervention that will help parents protect their children today and daily children develop sun-safe habits that will reduce their risk for skin cancer in the future.

Glenn is also fellow director of the Healthy and At-Risk Populations Research Program at UCLA. She noted that, "children of Latino survivors were just as right as children of non-Latino white survivors to have experienced a up to date sunburn, which highlights the importance of including this group in our work". According to Glenn, Hispanics have often been left-wing out of skin cancer prevention research due to the common misconception that sun protection is not important for them nerve. The office was published online Jan 13, 2015 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.