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Written by suNNy on 1 October 2009 – 11:00

There is overwhelming evidence that the biggest risk factor for skin cancer is sunburn , not gradual moderate sun exposure. I avoid attempting to tan, but to this day, I don’t walk around covered with sunscreen . ….. The earliest explicit suggestion that I could find about sunscreen possibly lowering skin cancer incidence came in 1977. The most relevant article I found was a discussion entitled “Are we overemphasizing sun avoidance in protection from melanoma?” from 2008. …

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