Free course spaces to boost skin cancer detection
BBCPeople are being encouraged to take part in a course to learn how to detect early signs of skin cancer.
Public Health in Guernsey said it was offering 10 free spaces on the programme, launched in 2018 by SKcin, for people working in hairdressing, beauty therapy, health, tattoo artistry, and other related fields to be taught the symptoms.
The project's aim was to help professionals understand how to identify the early signs of skin cancer so diagnosis can be picked up early, project leaders said. Details can be found on the government's social media channels.
Di Matthews, from Public Health, said work was needed because "there has been a reduction in knowledge of spotting signs of skin cancer".
She said: "For example, beauty therapists when massaging can often see more of the back than what we can... [and] identify these skin changes."
Public Health said it felt the online course would help Guernsey professionals become more familiar with skin differences.
SKcin said the course would highlight how to react to and assist clients if signs of skin cancer were noticed.
It added that, by the end of the course, participants would be aware of spotting the symptoms of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer and pre-cancerous lesions.
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