Pharmaceutical drugs may also increase you susceptibility to UV radiation. Check with your doctor if you are on any medications. Cataracts UV radiation increases the likelihood of certain cataracts. Cataracts are a form of eye damage in which the lens loses transparency and clouds vision. Cataracts diminish the eysight of millions of Americans and can lead to blindness if left untreated.
Cataracts are curable with surgery.
Melanoma is a serious form of skin cancer. It begins in the melanocytes, the cells that make the skin pigment called melanin. The good news is that melanoma is often curable if it is detected and treated in its early stages. About 7,300 Cancer Statistics deaths will be attributed to malignant melanoma in 1999. The number of new melanomas diagnosed in the United States has been increasing since 1973.