May is World Melanoma Awareness Month - "2020 Melanoma Skin Cancer Report - Stemming the global pandemic"
May 5, 2020
May is World Melanoma Awareness Month and at the heart of this campaign is the newly released report "2O2O Melanoma Skin Cancer Report - Stemming the global epidemic”. This is a global campaign expected to reach millions of people across 50 countries. Our colleagues at Melanoma Patients Australia are members of the Global Coalition for Melanoma Patient Advocacy that co-commissioned the report with Euromelanoma.
There are three key messages in this report:
- Improving public awareness of skin cancer risk factors
- Reducing intentional tanning
- Making self-skin checks a regular habit – and using the once a month occurrence of a full moon as a reminder
Even though New Zealand data is not included in the report, it's an interesting read.