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By Peter J. Fakouky
Times-Democrat Writer
You’ll find the positive influence of the sun almost everywhere.
“Rise and shine,” or “Good morning, merry sunshine,” we say to our kids as they get up for school. We hear it in the lines of familiar songs: “Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy,” “You are my sunshine,” “Let the sunshine in.”
But that bright ball in the sky has a dark side, too. Skin cancer is on the rise, and the sun is partly to blame.
Part of that increase is because a whole generation of baby boomer sun worshipers is now in mid-life, when cancers often spring up. The rest may be a continued lack of protection of skin, or just genetics.
Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer. It is basically cancer of a mole or freckle. While these pigmented skin areas may be small, if melanoma is left undetected it can spread to the rest of the body, and can be fatal.
Dr. Lisa Sherman is a Warrenton dermatologist who sees a lot of melanoma in her practice.
“In 1980 about one in 250 people developed melanoma,” Sherman said. “In the year 2000 it was more like 1 in 75.”
Sherman said that even though most of the skin dam
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