Exposición solar pseudobenificiosa durantes epocas tempranas de la vida, ahora melanoma.

Current Epidemic Of Melanoma In Light-Skinned Individuals May Be Linked To Twentieth Century Practice Of "Heliotherapy," Researchers Say.

Medscape (1/30, Chustecka) reports "the current epidemic of melanoma in light-skinned individuals is the result of old-fashioned medical beliefs about the health benefits of ultraviolet light (UV) and the practice of 'heliotherapy' in the first half of the twentieth century," according to researchers who presented their findings at the European CanCer Organisation Congress 2017. The researchers' "statistical analysis of melanoma mortality points the finger clearly at this practice, which involved exposing young children to intense UV radiation in the hope of preventing rickets and for other supposed health benefits." The analysis also indicates that melanoma death rates are declining "in younger individuals as a result of sun protection practices, and the team predicts that melanoma deaths will become rare in people younger than 50 years."

Benjamin Hidalgo-Matlock

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