Vitamin A Helps Protect Against Skin Cancer
Remember those lazy, hazy, crazy days of youthful summers, spending entire days playing outside? Back in those days before 'SPF' became part of our summertime vocabulary, occasional sunburn was the cost of fun in the sun. And while you might have endured some pain and an occasional restless night's sleep, you peeled and healed with no apparent harm.
Key word: 'apparent.'
Skin damage from occasional sunburns lays the groundwork for the development of actinic keratoses (AK) later in life. AK shows up as lesions that are precursors of the two most common types of cancer: nonmelanoma squamous cell or basal cell cancer.
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