About Skin Cancer
Below is an overview about skin cancer, your risk of getting the disease, and how you can prevent it.
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Your Skin
Our skin is the largest organ of our body and it’s health is the easiest to monitor. We can feel our skin and we can see it, so we tend to be more familiar with the health of our skin than we are our other organs. That is likely why cosmetics companies have a much easier time selling us products for our skin than doctors and naturopaths do making recommendations to help our liver, kidneys, or intestines.
We know when our skin is dry and when it starts to show signs of aging. The downside with our familiarity with our skin is that we tend to take it for granted and when it is under duress, we do not get particularly concerned. Our bodies are an amazing integrated system though and our skin plays an important role. Our tendency to under-estimate the importance of healthy skin can be detrimental to our health.