I think a lot of people today feel a lot of gratitude toward veterans and at the same time we really want to do everything we can to protect them and this is one of those instances where we’re identifying education and protection gaps that hopefully we will act on, melanoma is on the rise, more people are dying from it, yet is the number one preventable cancer. This [population] could be subtext of that trend.

Jennifer Powers

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The study does point out that certainly they’re not using sun protection to the degree we would all like because we know, based on previous historical data, that veterans who have particularly served in very sunny places have higher risks for melanoma later in life.

Jennifer Powers

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I think there’s probably a lot of complicated factors in terms of how to actually put [sun protection] into practice in a very hot environment.

Jennifer Powers

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Going from a less equatorial altitude to a much more equatorial altitude quickly over a couple days doesn’t allow your body to habituate to the stress and that’s the kind of quick, abrupt shift we associate more with melanoma than with other skin cancer.

Jennifer Powers

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