The more wrinkles you have on your face, the more sun you’ve been exposed to over your life—and that might help doctors guess how likely you are to get skin cancer, without needing any blood tests or scans.

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Influence of chronic UV exposure and lifestyle on facial skin photo-aging--results from a pilot study.

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The study found that people who spent more time in the sun over their lives had more wrinkles on their faces, and since wrinkles are easy to see and measure, they could be used as a simple sign of how much sun someone has been exposed to over their lifetime.

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Influence of chronic UV exposure and lifestyle on facial skin photo-aging--results from a pilot study.

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DOI: 10.2188/JEA.9.6SUP_136

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