New Study: SunSmart May Save 1000 Lives in 20 Years

Source: Mirage News , August 2024

Cancer Council WA has welcomed a new study showing its SunSmart program is saving money as well as lives.

Published in Health Promotion International, the research confirms the SunSmart program is expected to prevent 300,000 skin cancers, save 1000 lives and return $8.70 to the public purse for every dollar spent over the next 20 years.

Cancer Council WA Cancer Prevention and Research Director, Melissa Ledger, said we know skin cancer prevention programs work and it was reassuring after all these years of running skin cancer prevention programs in WA that we can now also measure the size of that effort.
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