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After skin cancer, sun protection is still spotty

Even though people may be more careful in the sun after skin cancer, having had a malignancy still doesn’t convince everybody to take basic precautions like wearing hats or sunscreen, a recent U.S. study suggests.

Researchers analyzed survey data from about 760 adults with a history of skin cancer and more than 34,000 people without prior malignancies.

With a skin cancer history, people were more than twice as likely to wear sunscreen and more than 50 percent more likely to wear hats and long sleeves than individuals who didn’t have a history of these tumors, the . . .

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