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Major
league baseball teams throughout North America are joing with
the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) and the Canadian
Dermatology Association (CDA) in the fourth year of a campaign
to increase awareness of the need for screenings for skin
cancer.
Baseball
players and their ardent fans are particularly at risk due
to the many hours they spend in the sun.
The baseball
players, coaches, front office personnel and family members
will be screened as part
of the fourth annual National Sports Skin Cancer Awareness
Program, a public education campaign involving the AAD, CDA,
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players
Association.
The campaign
encourages players and their fans to 'Play Smart When It Comes
to the Sun.'
"Skin
cancer is one of the easiest cancers to detect in its earliest
stages because the signs are right there on the surface of
the skin," said Dr. David McLean, President of the CDA.
Source:
Medical Week staff,
week of June 9, 2002
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