As if you needed another reason to wear your sunscreen….

Non-melanoma skin cancer could be a harbinger of other non-skin cancers.

 

According to a report by the National Cancer Institute and the Medical University of South Carolina, people who had been diagnosed with either basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer had double the risk of developing another type of cancer when compared to those with no history of the disease.

 

The full results on this study are published in the August 26^th online version of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute