General News
Published June 11, 2021
Years ago, a glowing tan used to be the proof of a short summer well spent. Today, our understanding and approach to sun exposure is very different.
More than five million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in this country every year, making it America’s most common cancer. It is also one of the most preventable forms of cancer and can be successfully treated if caught early. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, about 90 percent of non-melanoma skin cancers and 85 percent of melanoma cases are associated with exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
Common but preventable
The CDC recommends the following to protect your skin from the harmful UV radiation that causes most skin cancers:
- Stay in the shade
- Wear sun protective clothing
- Use a broad-spectrum sunscreen. Sunscreens wear off—reapply at least every 2 hours
- Avoid tanning beds and sunlamps
Taking precautions and visiting a doctor or dermatologist might just save you or someone important to you from a devastating diagnosis.
Take action
As the climate begins to warm and the sun comes out, it’s a good time to raise awareness for skin cancer and encourage your employees to consider safe sun practices.
On B’link, your resource for ready-to-share employee communications, you can find content about preventing skin cancer.
B’link pro tip: The search box
Looking for a particular topic? Use the search box on the B’link homepage. Just enter in key words that describe what you’re looking for.
Example: You want to tell your employees how to protect their skin in the sun. Just enter “preventing skin cancer” in the search box to generate the preventing skin cancer topic with content-3-ways, flyer/poster, and email. Try it out!
Keep telling us what you think
We value your feedback and hope you find this new resource useful. Send your feedback to blink@premera.com. What we hear from you helps us tailor our employer resources to best meet your needs. And we want
to keep improving B’link to make it a site you visit again and again.