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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Julia Musto

The sunburns that can change your life: Experts say just 5 can double cancer risk

It only takes minutes to get a damaging sun burn that can change your life.

Sun burns raise the risk of developing deadly skin cancer known as melanoma, which kills over 9,000 Americans each year, federal data shows.

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