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Summer is a time for having fun in the sun: playing ball, riding bikes, and swimming. And you probably know how to stay safe while having fun. You wear a mask if you are the catcher for a baseball game. You don’t swim unless you have an adult nearby. Or you wear a helmet while riding your bike. ,
But what do you do to protect your skin while you are outside? After all, it’s older adults who get skin cancer, right?
Every year, 600,000 Americans are told they have skin cancer. And many of these adults began sunbathing when they were children. According to John DeGiovanna, M.D., of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., the amount of time spent in the sun, and the number of sunburns you get while still young actually increase your risk of skin cancer more than if you sunbathe as an adult.
“The sun exposure you get when you are very young is damaging for two reasons,” says DeGiovanna. “First, young skin is more sensitive than older skin. Second, it takes many years for skin cancer to develop.” Therefore, the bums you get as a child have much more time to develop into skin cancers than the bums you get as an adult.
Although both dark- and light-skinned people need to be protected from the sun, darker-skinned people have more natural protection in their skin than light-skinned people. For this reason, “fair” people (those with blond and red hair, especially) are most at risk for getting skin cancer.
“It’s a good idea for people at high
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