Mostly, it's in ads or on posters in doctors' waiting rooms. We have quite a few ads that run during Summer, urging people to put on sun screen and wear protective clothing. "Slip, Slop, Slap" was a famous slogan in the eighties and early nineties. I can't remember exactly what order it went in, but I think it was something like "Slip on a shirt, slop on some suncreen and slap on a hat"... or something very similar.
More recently, we've had ads showing a melanoma being dug out of someone's skin in an effort to get people to take skin cancer more seriously.
If a fourteen year old boy is going to be learning about skin cancer, then he'd probably get his first snippet of information from a poster. You see them commonly in doctor's waiting rooms (as I said earlier) and they basically have images about about a dozen or so moles and freckles and they explain which ones are cancerous, potentially cancerous or completely harmless.
*waves to The Bunne* Silly girl, you forgot to mention the "we'll make you wear bit of your bum on your face! Aren't doctors gross?!" aspect of the ads.
A few years (at some point within the last decade, can't remember a specific year) back the government ran a memorable ad campaign featuring a man having a melanoma cut out of his nose and then having the skin replaced, with the (charming) message "[be sun smart] or you'll end up wearing your bum on your face
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We got a spiel in Year 8 science - the year I turned 13 - about skin cancers. This included some rather graphic photos documenting some of the results of a melanoma that went untreated until it had infested a fair bit of the underlying bone. As I remember, the picture after surgery had the guy with maybe half a jaw and other bits horrifyingly missing.
Apart from the pictures, we were told basically that ski cancers occurred when sun exposure damaged the cells in some way and things went haywire from there. Wear sunscreen! Cover up! Get spots, freckles, moles that change colour or shape or size or begin to ooze checked out (they failed to mention that stretch marks as you get bigger can change the shape of these things too... So yay for the panic in my head when I saw a pink shiny line slowly appear in the mole on my outer thigh, splitting it in two...) Pictures demonstrating the basic types of skin cancers were displayed. 13 years later I can remember basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, and that there was a third type. Of these,
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Also: I remember being told off in high school for not wearing my hat when standing such that the upper 75% of me was in shade. Explaining that wearing my hat would not cause me to receive any less sun exposure was met with reiteration of the rule from said teacher.
We also had posters up in our school, mostly in the science rooms and the PE areas.
But yep, Slip, Slop, Slap is the big one. Featuring a duck with a lisp LOL.
There's also an addition of Wrap at the end of the ad... to remind folks to put on sunglasses. Apparently Aussie eyesight is being damaged with cancers in the eyes themselves.
I'm 17, so not too much older than your character. When I was in primrary school we were literally hammered with information about skin cancer prevention in the earlier grades and then the types of skin cancer in the later grades. In HPE in year eight (13 years old, generally) we had a whole unit on skin cancer.
I live up in Far North Queensland, if that's relevant.
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More recently, we've had ads showing a melanoma being dug out of someone's skin in an effort to get people to take skin cancer more seriously.
If a fourteen year old boy is going to be learning about skin cancer, then he'd probably get his first snippet of information from a poster. You see them commonly in doctor's waiting rooms (as I said earlier) and they basically have images about about a dozen or so moles and freckles and they explain which ones are cancerous, potentially cancerous or completely harmless.
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Silly girl, you forgot to mention the "we'll make you wear bit of your bum on your face! Aren't doctors gross?!" aspect of the ads.
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Apart from the pictures, we were told basically that ski cancers occurred when sun exposure damaged the cells in some way and things went haywire from there. Wear sunscreen! Cover up! Get spots, freckles, moles that change colour or shape or size or begin to ooze checked out (they failed to mention that stretch marks as you get bigger can change the shape of these things too... So yay for the panic in my head when I saw a pink shiny line slowly appear in the mole on my outer thigh, splitting it in two...) Pictures demonstrating the basic types of skin cancers were displayed. 13 years later I can remember basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, and that there was a third type. Of these, ( ... )
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But yep, Slip, Slop, Slap is the big one. Featuring a duck with a lisp LOL.
There's also an addition of Wrap at the end of the ad... to remind folks to put on sunglasses. Apparently Aussie eyesight is being damaged with cancers in the eyes themselves.
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I live up in Far North Queensland, if that's relevant.
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