Skin savvy
As the sun sets on summer, don’t banish that SPF to the back of the cupboard.
The Wellcome Sanger Institute has warned that people in Britain have facial skin that has four times more DNA damage from sun than that of people living in Singapore – despite the Asian country having three times higher UV levels. Scientists believe the gap is due to differences in skin type. The UK population is more at risk of developing common skin cancers, with 17 times more cases in the UK.
The good news is that we can act to protect ourselves – clinical advice is
