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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally wouldn’t want the extra sun exposure for my child. Men who get melanoma often get it on their upper back/shoulders due to going without a shirt. 
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There is actually no link between melanoma and UV. There is a link between squamous cell and basal cell skin cancer and UV. This is a deadly myth actually. The most deadly melanomas often happen in dark-skinned people in strange places (e.g. inside their vagina, under a nail bed) and it doesn't occur to them that its melanoma until it is way advanced because of the myth of skin cancer = fair skinned people + sun exposure. P.S. Squamous cell and basal cell skin cancer are way less deadly than melanoma

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I'm not going to pay to read this article but just the way it is introduced says it's not well researched. It is not true that deadly melanomas occur mostly in dark skinned people in weird places. I was diagnosed decades ago and spent a lot of time talking to doctors and any groups who were knowledgeable. I'm going to throw in my useless anecdata that I am very pale and had malignant melanoma on my arm and know 2 very pale women who died from melanoma that was found on their backs. I grew up at the beach and suntanned all the time. My equally pale mother and siblings haven't had any skin cancers. They never suntanned like I did. Yes, I know it's useless anecdata but...[/quote]

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