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Those who believed that a person tanned and sun exposure caused great benefits to the body, are very wrong because the decrease in the ozone layer, these properties are discarded from solar radiation now a product of environmental pollution.

Thus, it concluded that sun exposure can cause moles and the worst the dreaded skin cancer, especially in children who have not yet completed its defenses to deal with these diseases , especially those who have not seven years have been met.

One of the main ways of realizing that your child may have which is the melanoma skin cancer is the growth of a mole to which the child should be taken immediately to the doctor, with the recommendation to use sunscreens among time periods between 10 am and 4 pm, thus preventing the disease.

It was also learned that only in the United States 62,000 people suffer from this disease and reach 8 000 die from this, being a major concern for all people who must follow directions in order to prevent melanoma.

A multitude of factors, genetic and environmental, increase the risk of developing cancer.

Family history is an important factor. Some families have a much higher risk of developing certain cancers than others. For example, the risk of developing breast cancer in women increases from 1.5 to 3 times if the mother or sister had this type of cancer. Some breast cancers are linked to a specific gene mutation more common in some ethnic groups and in some families.

Women with this genetic mutation have between 80 and 90 percent chance of developing breast cancer and 40 to 50 percent of ovarian cancer. Researchers have found that one percent of Ashkenazi Jewish women have this genetic mutation. Many other cancers, including some types of skin cancer and colon cancer, also tend to affect entire families. People with chromosomal abnormalities have an increased risk of cancer.
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