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Link Between Skin Cancer and Common Virus

By Kerry Grens on Monday, March 27, 2006.

It’s expected that one million Americans will develop skin cancer this year.

Sun is thought to be the major cause, but other risk factors—like genes and fair skin—can come in to play.

Researchers at Dartmouth College have uncovered another possible contributor.

It is a virus that causes cervical cancer and if researchers can show that it causes skin cancer too, a new world of prevention could open up.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Kerry Grens has more.

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