This 1 Place You're Not Putting Sun Cream Is Putting Your Health At Risk

RODOLFO BARRETTO on Unsplash" />Person sitting in sunshine.Now that we’re spending more time outdoors thanks to glorious sunshine and it being bank holiday season, more people will be repeatedly applying sunscreen throughout the day.Perhaps surprisingly, we should actually be applying sunscreen to our bodies every two hours, and this definitely includes our faces, necks and hands. This is the best way to ensure protection against UV rays and keep us safe while sunning ourselves.However, one dermatologist, Dr Michael Park, has urged that we are likely missing one key area when doing this, and it is putting us at risk of skin cancer. The area you are likely missing when applying sunscreenIn a recent Instagram Reel, Dr Park says that he doesn’t know where people got the idea that skin cancer “is not that big of a deal” when melanoma, if not caught early, will kill you.“Aggressive squamous cell carcinoma on the head and neck, will also kill you”, he added.While the most common type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, is unlikely to kill you, it does have to be literally cut out of your skin. “Not just it”, he adds, “but the skin surrounding it to make sure that it doesn’t come back.”Dr Park says that there are certain areas of the body that would be ‘way worse’ to have cancer removed from than others and one of those places is where most people forget to apply sunscreen to.“It’s the ears.” He shares that when he worked in a melanoma specialty clinic, he saw multiple patients who had cancer right on the tips of their ears who had to have ‘big chunks’ of their ears cut at, to remove the cancer and surrounding skin.He strongly advises that this summer, you remember to put sunscreen on your ears.Don’t have to tell me twice. Related...‘I Didn’t Know There Was A Stage 0’: Tina Knowles' Cancer Diagnosis Is a Wake-Up Call For MammogramsThe Crown's Olivia Williams Reveals That She'll Never Be Cancer-FreeI’m A Skincare Expert — These Are The Only Products Your Teen Needs

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