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CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: Healthcare Bill includes the very first tax aimed at white people (3/24/2010 10:53:06 PM)
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Thank you for the WebMD site.
http://www.webmd.com/skin-beauty/guide/sun-exposure-skin-cancer
All these quotes I'll play devil's advocate with are from that site.
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Cumulative sun exposure causes mainly basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer, while episodes of severe sunburns, usually before age 18, can cause melanoma later in life.
I don't know of many under 18 years of age who sunbathe, or go to tanning beds. Making sure people don't use tanning beds won't prevent melanoma, it seems, since this is usually decided before someone is 18 years old.
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Those whose occupations require long hours outdoors or who spend extensive leisure time in the sun are in particular jeopardy.
So no extra taxes for these high risk jobs, and...boating, fishing, hiking, etc., but higher taxes for those who go to a tanning bed for 10 minutes per day, three days per week? (I'm just poking fun of the logic of this.)
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But skin injuries are another important source. The cancer can arise in burns, scars, ulcers, long-standing sores and sites previously exposed to X-rays or certain chemicals (such as arsenic and petroleum by-products).
A bar fight knife scar can give you cancer later? A scar is a scar, and I have lots from different surgeries.
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Occasionally, squamous cell carcinomas arise spontaneously on what appears to be normal, healthy skin. Some researchers believe the tendency to develop these cancers can be inherited.
Remember what happened during prohibition? I think I'll join some secret club that has hidden tanning beds in the basement, and a secret knock with a giant guarding the door. Mwahahaha.
Anyway, the WebMD site said that most skin cancers have early stages where they haven't turned all the way into cancer yet. These are visible...so why is it that whenever I've gone for a physical there has never been an all over skin check? How about making this mandatory for physicals, and removing those pre-cancerous things.
4 or 5 years ago, at 18, my neice had this pre-cancerous splotch on the bottom of one of her breasts, and I assure you those things had never seen sunlight, never been seen nakie by a tanning bed. Her doctor said if it hadn't been removed, it would have become skin cancer.
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