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Word: nonmelanoma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...migration to tropical climes of people with racial origins in higher, less sunny latitudes has also led to rising rates of skin cancer. A survey of nonmelanoma skin cancers in Hawaii, for example, concluded that Japanese residents of the island of Kauai were 88 times more likely to develop a skin malignancy than Japanese living in Japan. And in subtropical Australia, which was settled largely by the fair-skinned English and Irish, the skin-cancer rate is the highest in the world. Two out of three Australians will develop at least one skin cancer during their lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skin Cancer: The Dark Side of Worshiping the Sun | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

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