Being in the sun a lot over your whole life — not just on vacations — makes you much more likely to get SCC, a type of skin cancer.

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Patterns of Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Skin Cancer Risk: the E3N-SunExp Study

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2018 Jan 5

This study found that women who were exposed to more sunlight over their whole lives had a higher chance of getting a type of skin cancer called SCC, which matches the claim that long-term sun exposure causes this cancer.

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Patterns of Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Skin Cancer Risk: the E3N-SunExp Study

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DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20160166

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