Everybody Needs to Wear Sunscreen

You know who doesn't wear sunscreen practically at all? People of color. That's right -- African American and Hispanics often don't believe they need to use sun protection -- and that's causing them to die of melanoma at an alarming rate. Although people of color develop skin cancer at rate much lower than Caucasians, when darker-skinned people do get skin cancer, they die more often than their white counterparts. According to the American Medical Association, the five-year melanoma survival rate is only 58 percent among African Americans, compared to 84 percent for Caucasians. That's a big difference, primarily due to the fact that when the skin cancer is detected, it has progressed to a deadlier stage.