Outdoor Workers Have Lower Melanoma Rates Than Office Workers Despite Sun Exposure

What was said

"Chronic exposure, where you have an outdoor job every day, lower than average risk of melanoma. Landscapers have, outdoor workers have a lower incidence of melanoma than office workers. It gets weird with melanoma. It's associated with burning, with intermittent sun exposure, like you work in an office all year, and then you go to Cancún and get fried, that's a pretty good recipe for melanoma."

Jacobsen presented data showing landscapers and people with constant outdoor jobs have fewer melanomas than office workers, contradicting standard dermatology guidance. The key risk factor is intermittent burning and childhood sunburns, not regular moderate exposure which appears protective by building the body's DNA repair systems.