Thread: Skin cancer rate in Aus - YIKES

Well Mathew - you have to die from something - if its not melanoma then the poisonous snakes, spiders, crocodiles, bushfires, etc are another option.

Still planning on coming?

Cheers

You better not come over Matt, just send all your tools over, we'll look after them for you.


Al

Originally Posted by MathewA

:eek: I had no idea that Aus has the highest skin cancer rate in the world - the gov website says 2/3 will be diagnosed with one or more of the three types. I guess I'll have to develop some nocturnal habbits.

It's only the highest because South East Queensland bumps up the average.

Cheers,

P (Slip, Slop, Slap as they say in the adult shops.)

By the way Mat, by my count it's only 24 Sleeps to go, 23 if you can't sleep on a plane!!

Cheers,

P

15 Minutes under the aussie sun and you start to damage your skin. The skin cancer clinics here in Port Macquarie are doing a roaring trade.

It's all the fault of the Giberal Party, or is it the Slavor Party, or was it the Sleazal Democrats, or Browny's Greens (how can the leader of the Greens be Bob BROWN :confused: )

Richard
see, one sip of red and I'm coherent. I'm going to finish the whole glass and go for sensible :eek:

Dont worrry, those feelings are ephemeral and get replaced by logical and coherent then fall away into intuitive, then happy and freindly and by the sixteenth glass your just back to the average everyday irrationality that has become the signature of the age.

Originally Posted by MathewA

:eek: I had no idea that Aus has the highest skin cancer rate in the world - the gov website says 2/3 will be diagnosed with one or more of the three types. I guess I'll have to develop some nocturnal habbits.

Mathew 2/3 is an imperial measurement. When converted to metric it is only 66%. Not so bad really.

Originally Posted by Gingermick

Dont worrry, those feelings are ephemeral and get replaced by logical and coherent then fall away into intuitive, then happy and freindly and by the sixteenth glass your just back to the average everyday irrationality that has become the signature of the age.

Can I have some of what you're drinking?

Richard

It's the price you pay for living in Godzown country...... you get used to it, so don't worry!!

Actually, there is a real reason for this ... the skin cancer bit, the drinking is easy to understand (wimmen drive us to it {just come from the divorce court})

The gap in the ozone layer extends over Oz and/or is thinner here than anywhere else in the world. That means we get a lot more UV than anywhere else and so the sun hits a lot harder. People from more extreme climates than ours find the heat a lot harder to handle hear because of this ... but we just get skin cancer. Be warned lads - we is living in a giant microwave oven.

Richard

Beeeeeep, Beeeeeep, Beeeeeep.


Your done.



NEXT!!

Al :eek:

Matthew,

Now that people are aware of the dangers of skin cancer, I think the rates are likely to fall noticeably; the trouble is that it only takes about five episodes of sunburn in your life to predispose your skin to skin cancer. Years ago, when sunburn was regarded as a trivial and temporary nuisance, many Australians clocked up their five or more episodes of sunburn without realising that they were storing up trouble for the future. Hopefully, most people now know better.

Rocker

Originally Posted by Rocker

Years ago, when sunburn was regarded as a trivial and temporary nuisance, many Australians clocked up their five or more episodes of sunburn without realising that they were storing up trouble for the future. Hopefully, most people now know better.
Rocker

Mathew These days you rearly see small children at the beach etc without correct skin protection, and we have some of the best testing clinics in the world. So a little care and skin cancer is not a worry its the bunyups that are the real threat.

Rgds
Russell