“We are not sausages”: the cancer league calls not to “roast” its skin this summer

“We are not sausages.” The Cancer League launches a prevention campaign that asks not to “roast” its skin in the sun on Monday, June 16, knowing that eight out of ten leather cancers are due to ultraviolet rays.

“Toast in the Sun is 80,000 leather cancers and 2,000 deaths per year. There are no sausages,” said the cancer league, remembering that skin cancers are among the “40% of the avoidable cancers because a change in behavior would limit its incidence.”

Each year, in France, from 141,200 to 243,500 leather cancers, it is diagnosed, including 112,960 to 194,800 caused by excessive exposure to UV rays, according to Public Health France. The number of melanomas (more aggressive skin cancers) has quadrupled since 1990.

This increase is explained “partly by the aging of the population, but also by the increase in risk practices, such as exposure to the most frequent sun or fashion of artificial tan”, such as UV cabins, the League points out in a press release.

“Flee the tan cabins”

To “mark the spirits”, the organization puts “a slogan that surprises” for its campaign, decreased in animated films and transmitted in particular in pharmacies from June 16 to 30.

“Under the sun or clouds, we protect ourselves,” urge the league.

It is advisable to avoid exposing between 12 pm and 4 pm in the France continent or between 10 am and 2 pm abroad, to wear clothes with adjusted or anti-UV fabric, sunglasses with an CE3 or CE4 standard and a wide edge hat, to apply sunscreen with a high protection index, 20 minutes before an exhibition, every two hours and after each swimming, even in the cloud.

The French are also asked to “flee from the tan cabins”, which overexpose to the recognized carcinogenic UVs without the artificial tan that protects the skin of the sun. As social inequalities can penalize prevention, the Cancer League displays actions to “the most vulnerable.”

Sun protection products will be distributed free of charge in Côtes-D’Armor to precarious people, in association with remains du coeur or on three beaches in La Rochelle through distributors. Awareness actions are also intended for traveling people, residents of a priority district, young people from leisure centers or soccer clubs.