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This module
was developed for students to learn more about skin cancer and epidemiology
for the 2002 National Science Olympiad, Disease Detective Section. In
addition to the Science Olympiad, these materials have multiple potential
applications for biology, other science, and health education purposes
in the classrooms of high schools and possibly some middle schools.
Acknowledgments
Much of this
material was adapted from the "SunSmart America: Promoting Skin Cancer
Prevention and Early Detection" curriculum developed by the Richard
David Kann Melanoma Foundation in cooperation with the school district
of Palm Beach County, Florida.
The curriculum,
which fulfills biology standards for Florida, has been in use in the high
school biology classes in Palm Beach County. That unit,
in turn, was created in cooperation with the Cancer Council Victoria’s
SunSmart program (in Australia).
We are indebted
to these organizations for their support of this endeavor. We also want
to thank Megan Moore, a medical student from Harvard Medical School, and
Kimberly Redding, MD, the preventive medicine resident from Morehouse
School of Medicine, for their significant contributions and effort to
develop this module.
Related Links
Richard David
Kann Melanoma Foundation
http://www.melanomafoundation.com/*
SunSmart
Australia Campaign
http://www.sunsmart.com.au*
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