The prevention of skin cancer installed in schools

With the arrival of summer, increase the warning message to protect themselves from sunlight and prevent possible skin diseases. In this sense, there are ten schools in the city during this next year, part of a pilot program called Solar Campaign 2011. This pioneering project, promoted by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) and the Public Health Agency of Barcelona (ASPB), put on sunscreen vending machines in schools so that children can protect themselves themselves against the sun.

Among the ten schools that carried out the experience, are the Primary Master and Antaviana Morera, both of New Districts, particularly in the neighborhoods and the City of Roquetas meridian respectively. The remaining schools are located throughout the city. It also collaborate the CEIP The Orchards, John Rock and Provençals Guipúzcoa, in the district of Sant Martí school Orlandai of Sarria, the Provincial Primary School in the Eixample or Ciutadella Park in Old Town.

The project not only provides for the installation of these dispensers sunscreen, but also planned to place an information stand at schools, where young people informed about the need for sun protection. At this stop, the young can make a few simple tests to know what the level of protection your skin needs.

A GROWING EVIL

It has been shown that the incidence of malignant melanoma in Catalonia has increased in the two decades after dar. Has also increased the level of mortality, which rose from 26 cases to over a hundred in this period.

Experts point out that the use of sunscreens, such as creams, are essential for children to prevent the onset of skin cancer after reaching adulthood. It also recommended the use of opaque clothing and avoiding exposure to sunlight from 10 am to 16 pm, the time of maximum solar radiation.