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Sweden becomes first European country to see skin cancer fall in under-50s (www.thelocal.com)

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Sweden is the first European country to see a fall in skin cancer among younger adults, for the first time in decades.

The risk of skin cancer is decreasing for people under 50, said Hildur Helgadottir, associate professor of oncology at the Karolinska Institute and lead author of a study published in the JAMA Dermatology medical journal.

The decline was most likely due in part to heightened awareness about sun protection and a drop in access to sunbeds, she told AFP.

While the researchers did not analyse the causes of the decline in skin cancer cases, several main factors were believed to have played a role.

In addition to increased awareness of the importance of sun protection, another factor was the introduction in Sweden of a 2018 ban on under-18s using sunbeds and a decline in public access to sunbeds that started years earlier.

Mobile phones and computers were also believed to play a role in the decline because children were now spending more time indoors and were therefore not exposed to as much sunlight these days.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Drop in access to sunbeds, wow. That must have been terrible, I only live here a few years (near Gothenburg) and we got a tanning studio down the road. It is freaking busy and even expanded to a second location... Right around the corner! And it used to be worse than that? Wtf.