SIR: May I through your columns bring to your readers' attention the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's new leaflet "SunSafe - a guide to skin protection"?
This year, over 40,000 people in the UK will be diagnosed with skin cancer and about 4,000 of them will have the most dangerous form of the disease - malignant melanoma. This is a subject I am particularly concerned with because, as some of you may have seen on ITV's "This Morning" programme, I have just been treated for a skin cancer on my face. Skin cancer is caused by over-exposure to the sun, which is why we are asking sun-lovers to be "sun safe" this summer. A few simple precautions such as wearing a sun hat and a high factor sunscreen can help prevent sunburn. The "SunSafe" leaflet gives advice on how to save your skin from the effects of the sun and, in particular, gives helpful information about sunscreens.
Readers can obtain a copy by sending a sae to: "SunSafe", Dept SS, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, PO Box 123, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX. The leaflet is free, but donations are always welcome. Dr Chris Steele
"This Morning" programme
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