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seattle_springtoday at 5:38 AM1 replyview on HN

That's .. just not true at all.


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ch4s3today at 3:36 PM

While the cause is UV exposure, sunburns drive most of the actual risk.[1] so it not technically true that skin cancer is only caused by sunburns, most melanomas come from sunburns. There’s a very linear dose response.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2873840/