Almost half (43%) of a sample of two thousand children surveyed in a study on skin protection habits in Porto got a sunburn on the beach last year. Of these, 54% were sunburnt more than once. This is an aggravated risk factor for developing skin cancer. The study was developed by Filipa Duarte, a researcher at CINTESIS, within the scope of her doctoral thesis, which she defended recently at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP).
The study was widely disseminated in the national media. Read here the news published in the printed edition of JN