At the end of July, Yannick Neuder, the Minister of Health, warned against calls, on social networks, to expose himself to the sun without protection. A prevention principles of prevention principles, while UVs are the main risk factors for skin cancer. A race for tanning without protecting themselves that worry specialists.
“We can only act these young people who are generally between 15 and 20 years old and who are essentially young women, says Eve Maubec, dermatologist at the Avicenne hospital (Bobigny), before continuing. When we are 15 to 20 years old, we are surely not very aware of the risk that we take, but it is a long -term risk. With first a risk of aging of the skin and also a long -term risk of skin cancer“.
On RTL, Eve Maubec, also points out that people who are victims of skin cancer are increasingly young and that “the number of cases of melanoma continues to increase each year”. “There are 15 to 20,000 new cases of melanoma per year in France. We die in 15% of cases“, She adds.
To protect herself well from the sun, the dermatologist recommends avoiding the sun between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., protecting it with clothes and applying sunscreen regularly.
