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Importance of Skin Cancer Prevention

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From Quick Guide: Info on Skin Cancer

Summary: Learn about the importance of preventing skin cancer in this free health care video.

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By Dr. Susan Jewell
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Dr. Susan Jewell is a British born educated bilingual Asian with a British accent and can speak Cantonese. A trained Physician-Scientist in clinical research medicine in the field of...read more

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"I'm going to talk to you about signs of skin cancer. Now in this clip, we're going to talk about sunscreen and also sunglasses that protect yourself from the horrible, and harmful effects of ultra-violet radiation that you get from the sun. Now when you're looking at a sunscreen to buy, the first thing you look at on the shelf, you can see there are a lot of different varieties of sunscreen, but the important thing you need to look at is the number, or the SPF number. The higher the number, here it's 45 SPF, and here this one is 15 SPF. Now the higher the number, the protection you're going to get from the harmful ultra-violet light. So obviously if you're looking for more protection, then you're going to look at the higher number, and you buy the sunscreen that has the higher SPF number. Now the other thing that you could use to protect yourself from the ultra-violet, especially from your eyes, is to get sunglasses. Here's a pair of sunglasses. Now I mean you can look at the design and all that, that's good, but the important thing is to make sure the lens has ultra-violet filters on them. So when you're looking at glasses, don't just look at the design and the brand name, also look to see that they have ultra-violet light protection on the lenses. That's an important thing to look at when you're choosing to buy sunglasses, and also when you're looking to purchase sunscreen lotions."

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