Allie Anderson speaks to practitioners about their go-to sun care products and how they work to safeguard the skin from damage
Non-melanoma skin cancer has the highest incidence of all cancers in the UK, with more than 130,000 cases diagnosed every year.1 This doesn’t even factor in unreported cases, of which there are likely to be many, according to Cancer Research UK. Melanoma, on the other hand, is the fifth most common cancer in the UK, accounting for 13,500 new cancer diagnoses annually.2 While non-melanoma skin cancers tend to be curable and easily treated – most cases are surgically excised and require no further treatment3 – melanoma is often less straightforward and survival rates are dependent on many factors, such as the specific type of melanoma, the stage at which it is diagnosed, the patient’s age and overall health.4 What both cancer types have in common is that exposure…
