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Thick Skinned with an Insider's Perspective, Adewole Adamson Questions Existing Dogma in Dermatology | American Association for the Advancement of Science


by
Owen Kibenge
Adewole Adamson, M.D, M.P.P. Image courtesy of University of Texas at Austin.
When reggae star Bob Marley died in May 1982 from melanoma, a type of skin cancer, dermatologist and recent AAAS Annual Meeting presenter Adewole Adamson, M.D, M.P.P. was not yet born. But in May 2019, thirty-seven years later, Adamson said that sunscreen would not have saved the legend or any other Black person.
If sunscreen was important in the prevention of melanoma in dark-skinned patients, then why have we never heard of an epidemic of melanoma in sub-Saharan Africa? he argued in a recent op-ed that appeared in The Washington Post. The piece not only caused a spirited debate in the African American community, but it was also discussed on NBC s Today Show and the New York Times. Unhappy about how the discussion was handled on NBC with little to no scientific input, Adamson took matters into his own hands.   ....

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