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Middle East war veterans experience higher skin cancer risk
Description: A study has found that US soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan came home with an increased risk of skin cancer due to both the desert climate and a lack of sun protection. Among the factors contributing to the increased risk were the desert and more equatorial latitudes than the mean center of the US population, the length of sunlight exposure every day, limited access to sunscreen, and a lack of training regarding the dangers of sun exposure. [Source: Cancer]
URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.29724/abstract
Availability: Summary
Source: Cancer
Publish Date: 11/1/2015
Reading Level: Expert
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