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S.Africa Skin Cancer: Exposure to Sun Increases Cancer Risk

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Although skin bleaching by dark-skinned people in Africa remains a highly controversial issue, health experts in South Africa say cosmetic sun-tanning by light-skinned people who want to look darker has been linked to causing certain skin cancers. And South Africa has recently overtaken Australia, as the country with the highest incidents of skin cancer.

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