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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/sun-safety-protect-your-skin/">Sun safety: Protect your skin</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted July 3, 2007 at 02:00 PM by Sarah Kaufman</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">American long-distance runner Deena Kastor has had a few fights in her day. She fought for the bronze medal in the women’s marathon in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. She fought to win the 2005 Chicago marathon and the 2006 New York City marathon. She fought for the title of the top women’s marathoner in 2006 by Track and Field News magazine. But perhaps her most notable battle has been with the disease that one in five Americans will develop in his lifetime: skin cancer. “I have 25 external stitches for basal cell carcinoma and early stages of melanoma,” Kastor said in a recent Medical News article. Kastor also has six internal stitches to tie off blood vessels…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/sun-safety-protect-your-skin/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/sun-safety-protect-your-skin/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/sun-safety-protect-your-skin/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/sun-safety-protect-your-skin/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>