We’re using more SPF than ever. Why are melanoma rates increasing?

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, November 2023

Our bodies get a lot from the sun. It helps set our body clock, offers protection from depression, anxiety and other mental health issues, and helps us synthesise vitamin D, which supports our bones, hormone function and immune system.

We need sunlight and yet we live in a country where rates of skin cancer are the highest in the world by far says Professor Anne Cust, chair of Cancer Council’s National Skin Cancer Committee.

Nearly 20,000 Australians were diagnosed with skin cancer in 2022, more than 1000 died from it and treating it costs us about $1.5 billion annually.
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