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Introduction

Looking Back

The Present Situation

How To Minimize Sun Damage

Treating Eye Disorders

Treating Skin Damage

Alternative Treatment Methods

My Personal Experience with Actinic Keratoses

Conclusion

 

Conclusion

 

I'm convinced that PREVENTION IS THE BEST MEDICINE. If however, you already have signs of AK or skin cancer, then see your medical doctor or dermatologist as soon as possible. If you are concerned about your vision, see your eye doctor. Hopefully, by the time you need skin damage treatment:

Medical researchers will have found a less invasive treatment method than the preferred Efudex --- although remember, the present thinking is that the redder and rawer the skin becomes, the better the chances of eliminating AKs and skin cancer!

A natural product without serious side effects, like SkinAnswer, will have been proven through double-blind studies to be safe and effective and the F.D.A.will have put it on its approved drug list.

Researchers will have developed a product which prevents skin cancer by repairing sun-damaged DNA. Actually, such a product, called Dimericine, already exists and is presently undergoing testing! Already, clinical trials have shown that it can reduce the incidence of skin cancer for people with a rare inherited disease called xeroderma pigmentosum, or XP, who can blister in minutes and suffer skin cancer at 1,000 times the rate of average people.

Most windsurfers, while young in heart, are obviously still too old to limit sun exposure in their childhood ... definitely too late for that but we can do that our children! So remember to "slip, slop, slap", as the cancer societies new sun-safety campaign says: "Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat" anytime you or your children are in the sun. Actually, make that "slip, slop, slap and slog" ... slog on your sunglasses!

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