SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns are falling short in how they protect their skin from the sun as a new study has revealed the Beehive State has the highest rates of melanoma in the country.
“I don’t think it really surprises me," explained Tammy Stump, a visiting instructor in the Department of Dermatology at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City."Since I began work in the area a little over a decade ago, Utah has been consistently high for rates of skin cancer including melanoma.”
“Sunscreen is definitely an important tool that we have, but its efficacy is really going to depend on how well people put it on,” Stump remarked.
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