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Study indicates having skin cancer may double risk of developing other forms of cancer.

The U.K.'s

Telegraph

(1/7, Devlin) reports that, according to a study published in the

British Journal of Cancer

, "having skin cancer doubles the risk of being with diagnosed with some other forms of cancer," especially "another type of skin cancer or lung cancer." For the study, researchers from Queen's University in Northern Ireland examined data on "1,837 people treated for melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, and 20,823 treated for non-melanoma skin cancer between 1993 and 2002." Analysis revealed that, "compared with the general population, those with non-melanoma skin cancer were almost twice as likely to go on to develop melanoma," and "were also 57 percent more likely to go on to develop another type of cancer." Patients with "melanoma were also more than twice as likely to develop another form of cancer."
        According to the U.K.'s

Press Association

(1/7), "melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer." In the U.K. every year, "more than 9,500 people are diagnosed with it, and more than 2,000 people die." The U.K.'s

Mirror

(1/7, Cook) also covers the story.