• Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz
    40·
    2 days ago

    Skin cancer is the most easily treatable cancer with long term survival rates between 90-95%. Most deaths that do occur are those cases that were either ignored or undetected for a long time so if your skin cancer is detected early your chance of survival will be much higher than that. If you protect yourself with sun screen or otherwise make sure you’re not getting extreme amounts of UV the benefits of sun exposure far outweigh the detriments in my opinion. Let a loved one check your body for melanoma from time to time.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      26·
      2 days ago

      With that being said, skin cancer is incredibly shitty. My wife has melanoma and has to get checked by a dermatologist every 3 months. They typically biopsy at least once every visit, and about every other visit they schedule surgery to cut one or more cancer spots off her.

      They’re not very pleasant surgeries either, since they have to go fairly deep and take pretty wide margins to ensure that it didn’t spread. The stitches aren’t very fun, since they last for several weeks. The spots around muscles that you move a lot, like your calf or thighs are the worst, because they pull and can tear the stitches. Cleaning and dressing the bandages isn’t really great either, since you have a lot of caked on blood and ooze that’s tricky to get off without pulling on the wounds.

      All in all, skin cancer is 0/10, would not recommend. Wear sunscreen.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    My sister yesterday was like “why is it if you go back through any given religion’s history, they all started as sun worshippers?”

    I was like “I mean, if you’re born outside the sun is likely the first thing you see. Pop outta your mom and just be like ‘Ah shit! It’s fucking bright! Is that God?!’”

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      13·
      2 days ago

      Also, the sun is a cruel god. You need it to survive. To grow anything. But not just the sun. Just sun? Ya die. Too much sun and not enough other stuff? Likely dead. Too much sun for 3 months in a row? Maybe dead now, maybe dead later. Or lovely, hard to say.

        • Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.caEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          Have you ever seen the night sky in an area with no light pollution? I have to imagine a clear night sky back then was insane in a super moon.