How to be sunsmart this summer
Sad to say, Australia has the highest per-capita rate of skin cancer in the world, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International. So with summer just around the corner, there’s never been a better time to learn about sunscreen.
The first point to make is that using sunscreen can, literally, save your life.
A 2020 study by Gordon et al, which modelled the incidence of skin cancers in Queensland over the next 30 years, found that daily sunscreen use could prevent 1,055 melanomas and 16,977 keratinocyte skin cancers per 100,000 people.
With that in mind, let’s take a deep dive into sunscreen – and bust some myths along the way.
