Home Care in Wilton Manors FL
May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. If you are like many family caregivers, May is the time when you really start thinking about all of the fun and benefits of getting outside and enjoying more of your home care activities together out in the summer weather. This makes it the ideal time to learn more about skin cancer, how you can prevent it, and how you can detect it should it occur in your aging parent.
Some things that you should know about skin cancer include:
- Each year more than 3 million people are treated more nearly 5 and a half million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer.
- More new cases of skin cancer occur each year than new cases of colon cancer, lung cancer, and breast cancer combined.
- In the last 30 years, more people have suffered from skin cancer than have experienced all other types of cancer combined.
- Approximately 20 percent of people throughout the United States will develop some form of skin cancer during their lifetimes.
- Among those older adults who live to the age of 65, approximately 40 to 50 percent will experience either squamous cell carcinoma or basal cell carcinoma at least one time.
- The most common form of skin cancer is basal cell carcinoma, and while it is rarely fatal, it can lead to extensive disfigurement if not treated promptly and effectively.
- Those who have experienced an organ transplant are approximately 100 times more likely to develop sin cancer than those who have not experienced this type of medical treatment.
- More than 58 million people throughout the United States experience a precancerous condition called actinic keratosis.
- Approximately 90 percent of cases of non-melanoma skin cancer can be linked to exposure to the UV radiation of sunlight.
- Every 52 minutes someone dies from melanoma.
- Just under 76,4000 new cases of invasive melanoma are expected to be diagnosed in the United States each year.
- More than 10, 100 people will die from melanoma each year.
- Less than one percent of skin cancer cases is melanoma, but this form of skin cancer is the culprit behind the vast majority of deaths associated with skin cancer.
- Approximately 86 percent of melanoma cases can be liked to exposure to the UV radiation of sunlight.
- Mortality related to melanoma is steadily rising among men, making it one of only three cancers that is experiencing this statistic.
- If caught early, those with melanoma in the United States have approximately a 98 percent five year survival rate.
- If the cancer has already moved to the lymph nodes by the time of diagnosis, the five year survival rate drops to 63 percent.
- If the cancer has metastasized into other organs of the body by the time of diagnosis, the five year survival rate falls to just 17 percent.
- If a person has had more than five sunburns in their lives, their risk of developing skin cancer doubles. It increases with each subsequent sunburn.
- Wearing sunscreen daily drops the risk of skin cancer by 40 to 50 percent.
If you or a family member are in need of home care in Wilton Manors, FL, call the caring professionals at Star Multi Care today at (954) 870-4770. Providing service in Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Weston, Southwest Ranches, Pembroke Pines, Cooper City, Lighthouse Point, and Wilton Manors.
Source: http://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/skin-cancer-facts
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With over 35 years of experience, Stephen Sternbach has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Star Multi Care Services since 1987. After the sale of the New York and New Jersey operations of Star Multi Care Services, Sternbach brought the company private where he remains President and CEO of this 40-million dollar company. With Sternbach at the helm, Star Multi Care Services employs more than 650 employees, in six offices throughout Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.
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