Ultraviolet sun exposure and sun protection behaviors in outdoor rock climbers.
Jose Vicente Gutiérrez ManzanedoJosé Luis González-MontesinosJosé Aguilera ArjonaAlba Rodriguez MartinezCarmen Vaz PardalVanesa España-RomeroFrancisco Rivas RuizNuria Blázquez SánchezMaria Victoria De GálvezMagdalena de Troya MartínPublished in: Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology (2023)
The high rates of sunburn, the elevated personal UVR measured and the clearly insufficient sun protection practices followed during rock climbing together with unsatisfactory attitudes towards tanning reveal the need to develop explicit sun protection campaigns and educational strategies to reduce the risk of skin cancer among the athletes studied.