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Skin cancer screening guidelines can seem confusing – three skin cancer researchers explain when to consider getting checked

  • Written by Enrique Torchia, Assistant Research Professor of Dermatology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageA history of sunburns may put people at greater risk of developing skin cancer.dnberty/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Protecting oneself from the summer sun and its damaging ultraviolet rays is often not straightforward. And public health messaging around when and how to be screened for skin cancer has become somewhat confusing.

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