Why are Australians at such high risk for developing skin cancer?
Conquering Skin Cancer
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Meet Professor David Whiteman, an epidemiologist at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Insitute. With a special interest in the causes, control, and prevention of cancer, David now leads a large program of cancer research, comprising both national and international studies of melanoma and other cancers.
400,000 Australians are diagnosed and treated for common skin cancers each year, with another 16,000 treated for melanomas. Billions of dollars are poured into treatment each year- it is an incredible burden on the Australian health system.
Australians are at heightened risk of developing skin cancers for a variety of reasons; David mentions cultural, lifestyle, and solar factors, in addition to our demographics living along the coast.
Watch David's insights, and hear why he is optimistic that Australia can become a global success story in the skin cancer narrative.
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