Skin Cancer Informative Speech

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It would appear that most people are aware of melanoma than any other types of skin cancer. Which is great, in the sense that it is the most dangerous type of skin cancer. I noticed that when I researched all of the types of skin cancer on The Skin Cancer Foundation website, that prevention is the same for each type of skin cancer. They should just state, "Stay out of the Sun!" to get their point across as to how damaging the UV rays from the sunlight are to our skin. However, tanning beds also emit UV rays, which I wrote about in my post that living in the Midwest could potentially increase the risk of skin cancer. I know that when I was in high school, for all of the school dances, girls would talk about how much time it took them in

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