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ch4s3
199 days ago
It’s just sunburns that cause skin cancer. It’s really that simple.
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seattle_spring
199 days ago
That's .. just not true at all.
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ch4s3
199 days ago
While the cause is UV exposure, sunburns drive most of the actual risk.[1] so it not technically true that skin cancer is only caused by sunburns, most melanomas come from sunburns. There’s a very linear dose response.
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2873840/
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DANmode
198 days ago
More accurately, “sunburn events”.
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