To control the epidemic; to prevent skin cancers by public education campaigns about the need for sun protection all year around from birth to old age; to change public attitudes towards tanning; to encourage detection of skin cancers at the earliest stage when they are almost completely curable; to improve skin cancer care by physician education and training programs; to support research into new diagnostic techniques and therapies; to focus attention on melanoma, the most life-threatening of the skin cancers; to teach children and caregivers about the sun, as 80% of our lifetime sun exposure occurs before the age of 18; to encourage community action; to stimulate public education programs abroad.

SKIN CANCER