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• Skin cancer 'ups new cancer risk' 

Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2009-01-07

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Experts found people treated for melanoma were more than twice as likely to develop other, unrelated cancers than the general population.

The risk was also elevated - although not as much - for patients with other forms of skin cancer.

The study, led by Queen's University Belfast, features in the British Journal of Cancer.

It echoes previous more general research suggesting that one type of cancer raises the risk of developing another.

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