Sun habits in the children of Southern Italy

Skin cancer risk factors among primary school children: Investigations in Western Hungary

“…The results are relevant because they highlight that melanoma risk factors (fairness of eye, hair and skin colour, presence of nevi and experience of sunburns) are common in the investigated children population. As reported by other studies, the study pointed out that constitutional characteristics such as fair complexion, presence of freckles and older age were factors predicting sunburns (Balato et al, 2007;Cercato et al, 2008;Dixon et al, 1999;Ramazzotti et al, 2009;Severi et al, 2002;Stinco et al, 2005). These findings confirm the evidence of the higher susceptibility of fair skinned individuals and highlight a decline in sun protection practices in older children, probably due to reduced parental control.…”

MDM2 SNP309 and p53 Arg72Pro in cutaneous melanoma: association between SNP309 GG genotype and tumor Breslow thickness

“…The primary tumor and any signs of progression were determinate according to recent classifications detected and confirmed by sonography, computed tomography or histopathology after surgical removal. 21 Given that people from Campania are exposed to the sun frequently, 40% of children have sunburns during holidays and 71.2% stay in the sun from 1100 to 1600 hours, 22 we included in this study only the cases who had more than three sunburns defined as episodes of intense erythema with or without blisters causing pain and discomfort for 42 days. 23 This explains the low-median age (37.0 years) of our patients.…”

A predicted functional single-nucleotide polymorphism of bone morphogenetic protein-4 gene affects mRNA expression and shows a significant association with cutaneous melanoma in Southern Italian population

“…The primary tumor and any signs of progression were determinate according to recent classiWcations detected and conWrmed by sonography, computed tomography or histopathology after surgical removal (Chung et al 2004). Given that people from Campania expose to the sun frequently, 40% of children have sunburns during holidays and 71.2% stay in the sun from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Balato et al 2007), we included in this study only the cases who had more than three sunburns deWned as episodes of intense erythema with or without blisters causing pain and discomfort for more than 2 days (Carli et al 2002). This explains the low-mean age (37.7 years) of our patients.…”