Skin cancer infection risk
PEOPLE suffering from skin cancer have a higher chance of developing another type of cancer, researchers said today.
Experts found that those being treated for the disease could be more than twice as likely to get another cancer compared with the general population. Researchers for the study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, focused their attention solely on people with skin cancer. They analysed data from the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry for 1993-2002.
Compared with the general population, people with non-melanoma skin cancer were up to 57 per cent more likely to develop another type of cancer.
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