>
>
>Doug wrote:
>
>I am sad to hear your girlfriend has developed this condition so common to
>climates like ours. While it has little OM content, recent research on this
>subject is important to photographers that tend to be outdoors a lot. It now
>appears sunblock does not help prevent skin carcinomas. It is a matter of
>genetics and exposure to sun with or without sunblock or sunburn. Blondes
>and redheads with light eyes and many moles are the highest risk group.
>Persons of high risk should keep the sun off their skin whether or not they
>use sunblock. This is important to me as I am in the middle risk wise, but I
>have spent many hours outdoors in the Texas sun.
>
>Good luck,
>Doug
>Likewise, good luck to Chuck and his partner. A very kind offer from George
>also - obviously some very generous and high-quality people on this list!
>
>Being a red-haired, outdoor-photography person, it's a topic that worries me
>also!
>
>Cheers
>Robert Ashdown
>
>(and, I recently left my favourite hat on a train..aarrrgghhh! If anyone
>finds a battered Akubra with a Brahminy Kite feather in it, please send it
>home!)
>
>
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