Skin cancer may lead to other cancers
If you've beaten non-melanoma skin cancer, you may be more likely
to be diagnosed with another type of cancer later in life, a new
study suggests. Scientists looked at 19,000 people who either had
or never had skin cancer. Over the course of 16 years, researchers
found that those who'd had the disease were more than twice as
likely to develop other malignancies--particuarly lung, bowel,
breast, and prostate cancer. Experts say this could mean getting
skin cancer early in life indicates an inherited predisposition to
cancer in general.
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