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Skin cancer: is HPV also a potential cause?

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par Sarah Allinson, Professor, Department of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University

Skin cancer is typically caused by damage to the skin’s cells from ultraviolet radiation. But a recent case study has just shed light on another potential cause: human papillomavirus.

The report, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, focused on the case of a 34-year-old woman who had been diagnosed with over 40 squamous cell carcinomas (SCC). This is the second most common type…

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