What’s your skin cancer risk?

Wondering whether you will be among 2 in every 3 Australians who will have a skin cancer develop at some time in their lifetime?

Here’s how to reduce your risk of a skin cancer appearing:

• Be sun smart, Slip, Slop, Slap and wear wrap-around sunglasses.
• Organise a personalised skin health plan with your doctor.
• Self-monitor for any abnormal moles or skin lesions.
• Have regular skin checks with your doctor.
• Use medical grade skin repair and protection products.
• Use doctor-prescribed skin cancer creams and skin care products for exposed skin.
• Ask your doctor about photodynamic therapy for skin cancer.

If you’ve had a skin cancer appear, you can assess your risk of another one occurring based on reliable research statistics that say…

When you have a skin cancer removed, you still have at least a 40% chance of another one appearing in that area in the next 3 years, if you do nothing*.

But, if you wait until you have had 2 skin cancers before you start to repair your skin, that’s where the statistics get really scary….

After more than 2 skin cancers, your future risk of another one appearing jumps to 94% in the next 3 years. And more than 10 skin cancers means your risk is 100% for more appearing in the next 3 years*.

It is never too late to repair and protect your skin.

allmedic’s powerful skin repair product range offers more than a cut, burn and poison approach to skin cancer. Our aim is to treat the past, repair the present and protect the future of your skin.

Find out more here on our previous blog or visit our website.

*Reference – Czarnecki et al. Dermatology 1994 volume 189 p.364-367