21/04/2014 BBC Wales Today


21/04/2014

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Good evening. There's been a dramatic rise in the number of

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people in Wales diagnosed with the most serious form of skin cancer.

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Figures by Cancer Research UK show the rate of people diagnosed with

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malignant melanoma here has more than quadrupled over the past 40

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years. Carwyn Jones reports. We're a nation of sun lovers, and after the

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winter we've had, who can blame the hundreds of people in Porthcawl

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today soaking up the Easter sunshine. But prolonged exposure to

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UV rays comes at a cost. That's seven, eight months before she died.

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Jeffrey May lost his wife Elaine to skin cancer last year. She developed

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malignant melanoma, which then spread to her gall bladder, her

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spine, and finally to her brain. Melanoma is a vile, horrible

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illness. It's skin cancer, cancer that gets in your blood system and

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attacks the organs of your body. I think about Elaine every day of my

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life, and shall do for the rest of my life, and think about could I

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have done anything more? Just wish I could. Malignant melanoma is the

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most serious form of skin cancer. The main cause is sun damage to the

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skin. In women, the most common place to develop it is on the legs.

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In men, it's on the chest and the back.

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Figures released today show that 18 in every 100,000 people are

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diagnosed with malignant melanoma in Wales. In the mid 1970s, that number

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was just four for 100,000. That means around 730 people here are

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developing malignant melanoma each year. Compare that to 40 years ago,

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when the figure stood at 90 people each year.

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The number of people being diagnosed with skin cancer has quadrupled over

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the last 40 years, making it the fifth most common cancer in Wales,

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and this will mean more people are dying of the disease.

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The rise in skin cancer rates in Wales can be put down to more of us

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using sun beds and our love of beach holidays, either abroad or closer to

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home. As thousands of us flocked to the west coast for the Easter

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getaway, many were unaware of the risks caused by increased exposure

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to the sun. I don't wear sun cream because I get

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a tan next morning. Not at all unless I am abroad. It depends on

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how hot it is on the day. As ever, the advice is to be

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sensible in the sun. Spend more time in the shade and use plenty of

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sunscreen. If caught early enough malignant

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melanoma can be treated successfully, but when it spreads to

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other parts of the body, it can be a deadly disease. The cancer than can

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prove fatal. Motorcyclists are being urged to

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take care whilst driving, to reduce the number of deaths on North Wales

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roads. They've accounted for almost 60% of serious casualties on one

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road over the last decade - the A494.

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Today, North Wales Police launched the Bikesafe campaign at the

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Horseshoe Pass Complex in Llangollen, a popular meeting place

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for motorcyclists. Army medics who've recently returned

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from their second tour of Afghanistan have been granted the

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freedom of Cardiff. Reserve soldiers from 203 Welsh Field Hospital

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marched outside City Hall. Nicola Smith was there. Today they wore

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their military uniform with pride. These men and women have served in

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places like the Balkan, Iraq and Afghanistan, and today, the city

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said thank you. Tomorrow morning though, they will return to work, as

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doctors, physio, radiographers in hospitals across Wales. Jessica is

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one of them. She is a staff nurse on the vascular unit at the University

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Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Four years ago, she joined the military,

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and has just completed a tour duty with the unit in Camp Bastion. I was

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mentoring the Afghan medics to help them look after their casualties

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when believe. It was something I have never done before, it was a new

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experience and really good to work with people from different

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countries. They are known as the Welsh medics

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and Tina is the Colonel. Nine the five she is head of the Royal

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College of Nursing in Wales. It is a huge honour, to have the freedom of

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the city of Cardiff, for the whole of the field hospital, and the

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families are here and you can see that they are proud, because when we

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go on deployment they are there in the background looking after

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everything we have to come home to, we go out of life and come back in

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as reservists so it is for them as much as us, it is a whole family

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affair. The honour is purely ceremonial but

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the unit is only the ninth organisation to be awarded the

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freedom of Cardiff since the 1880s. Another chapter in the history of

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the reservists and the city where Tay are based.

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There's speculation tonight that Ryan Giggs could take over from

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David Moyes as the manager of Manchester United. After 11 losses

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this season, the club says Moyes hasn't been sacked, but declined to

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comment on his longer-term future. One bookmaker has placed Ryan Giggs

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as favourite to become the next permanent manager at Old Trafford.

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Staying with football, and Newport County drew with Burton at Rodney

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Parade 1-1. They're now 15th in League 2. Meanwhile, Wrexham were

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beaten by Lincoln City 1-0 in the Conference Premier.

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Cricket, and after a disappointing opening day for Glamorgan, on day

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two of their County Championship match Gloucestershire leads by 12

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runs, with four wickets remaining in the 1st innings. Glamorgan's first

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innings came to an end on 145. Gloucestershire are currently #19d 5

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for eight. As the bank holiday comes to an end,

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it's been pretty busy on the roads today, with plenty of people out

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making the most of the lovely weather too.

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Benny can tell good evening, it has been a glorious

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day across much of Wales with impressive temperatures. Highs of 20

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C. Considering the average is only 11, we weren't doing too bad. We do

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have heavy slow-moving showers, which could mixed with hail or

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thunder. Think part of the north escape the worst of those heavy

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showers and it is a fairly mild night with the temperatures no lower

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than eight. That will give us a mild start to Tuesday morning but we have

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the showers continuing for a time. Again heavy at times and we could

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see surface water flooding. Brightness between the showers if

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you are lucky, with highs of round 15. Fool feeling cooler than today.

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It was nice while it lasted. It will be back with an update after the

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tone clock news. In the meantime, enjoy your evening. Bye for now.

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