Reasons why sun exposure will give you skin cancer

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Reasons Why Sun Exposure Will Give You Skin
Cancer
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• Overexposure to the sun does more than make you
  age faster it also increases the risk of skin
  cancer. Although a healthy glow is considered an
  attractive feature, sun exposure damages the
  fiber in the skins elastin, which causes the
  skin to sag, stretch, and lose its ability to
  bounce back after being stretched. Skin cancer is
  the most common form of cancer in the United
  States and the numbers keep rising. Here is why
  you need to protect yourself in the sun.

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• Too much exposure to the sun may weaken the
  immune system in your skin. According to Kim
  Kripe, chairman at the M.D. Anderson Cancer
  Center at the University of Texas in Houston of
  the immunology department, We do know that
  ultraviolet light does cause immunological
  changes in humans.

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• Thats clear. Its a fairly subtle effect. Its
  not total immune suppression like the AIDS
  virus. Research shows that skin cancer due to
  immune system suppression seems to affect light
  skinned and dark skinned people alike.

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• Sunburn can cause damage to the genetic material
  in the skins cells. If sunburn happens
  frequently enough, it can cause cells to start
  growing out of control, which may develop into
  cancer.

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• Peeling after sunburn is the bodys way of
  getting rid of damaged skin cells that could
  possibly lead to cancer. But sometimes even
  though the skin peels away and forms new layers,
  underlying damage can remain. Therefore, it is
  important to avoid burning in the first place.

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• According to the American Cancer Society, people
  who use tanning beds are more at risk of
  developing skin cancer than people who do not.
  Individuals who started indoor tanning before the
  age of thirty to thirty-five are most at risk of
  developing melanoma, which is considered to be
  one of the most dangerous forms of skin cancer.
  People who started using indoor tanning beds
  before the age of twenty-five have a greater risk
  of developing basal and squamous cell skin cancer.

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• Research indicates that sun exposure causes a
  type of mutation known as p53 in skin cancers at
  a higher frequency in skin cancer than in other
  types of cancer.

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• The p53 genetic mutation has been shown to arise
  in animal studies as early as one week within
  chronic sun exposure and reaches its maximum at
  four to eight weeks of exposure. Another genetic
  mutation known as patched (PTC) has been found on
  the skin of sun-exposed areas of the skin.

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• Sun exposure causes damage to the fibers in
  skins elastin, which is part of the skins
  connective tissue. Elastin is what helps your
  skin return to normal after it has been poked or
  pinched.

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• These fibers begin to break down when they are
  overexposed to the sun and may cause sagging and
  stretching of the skin. When skin becomes so
  exposed to the sun that its elastin starts to
  break down, it may cause cellular damage to
  healthy skin cells that eventually lead to skin
  cancer.

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