Greece has a "week against skin cancer"

The Greeks must have not have gotten the news this weekend about the "benefits" of sunbathing because they released a skin cancer alert just in time for the sunbathing season as well as to ring in the "Week Against Skin Cancer" which starts on Monday.

From the Kathimerini:

Heralding the Week Against Skin Cancer in Greece, which begins next Monday, Andreas Katasabas, a professor of dermatology at Athens University, along with several colleagues, warned that sudden exposure to the sun could be worse than constantly being in the sunlight for developing melanoma.
They revealed that 2.58 of Greeks per 100,000 developed melanoma in 1998 (the lowest ratio in Europe), compared to 11.48 in Sweden (the highest) and 7.59 in Britain. But doctors said that during last year’s Week Against Skin Cancer in Greece, of some 2,700 people who took the free tests available, 94 displayed signs of melanoma.