Running at YourRunning.com - skin cancer

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cryssteen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:21:54 -0600

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Skin Cancer/ Immune Suppression

rlappi — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:38:18 -0600

http://www.yourrunning.com/blog-skin_cancer_stop_beating_up_your_immune_...

News that marathon runners and other endurance athletes may be at increased risk of skin cancer shouldn’t have come as a surprise.

Mainstream media focused on the idea that it was increased exposure to the sun that was to blame, and almost universally carried warnings for runners to slap on the sunblock. In doing so they completely missed the point – which is that training and racing suppresses the immune system.

Skin cancer? Stop beating up your immune system

simon — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:40:27 -0700

News that marathon runners and other endurance athletes may be at increased risk of skin cancer shouldn’t have come as a surprise.

It’s the immune system that controls cancer, not how much sunlight you are exposed to. Distance runners are more likely to develop cancer because they artificially – and chronically -- suppress their immune systems. To add insult to injury, most runners are not nutritionally protected, or at best only partially protected, against the overt stress of protracted exercise.