With incidence rates of melanoma rising for at least 30 years, it is not surprising that new research suggests that five or more blistering sunburnsexperienced before the age of 20 could increase melanoma risk by 80%, reports [s]Medical News Today[/s]. A study led by Dr Abrar Qureshi, professor and chair of the department of dermatology at the [b]Brown University[/b] proposes in a cohort of 108,916 white women, those who had a minimum of five severe sunburn incidents between the ages of 15 and 20 had an increased risk of all skin cancers. The report says skin cancer is the most common cancer, accounting for nearly half of all cancer cases in the US. Although melanoma skin cancer accounts for less than 2% of these cases, it is more aggressive than other skin cancers.
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[link url=http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/16/1055-9965.EPI-13-0821.abstract?sid=3a1a2d64-9d1d-4de6-93e4-f043cea5dd64]CEBP abstract[/link]