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6 Factors That Increase Your Child's Risk of Skin Cancer
Will your child get skin cancer? Watch out for these risk factors, and get tips on keeping your child safe in the sun, from Parents magazine and the American Academy of Dermatology.
About 10 percent of melanoma cases run in the family. If your child has a first-degree relative -- you, your spouse, or a sibling -- who develops melanoma, he has a 50 percent greater chance of getting this cancer than someone without a family history. (If the cancer occurs in a grandparent or an aunt or an uncle, there's still a risk but it's not as great.)
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Why is it that no where in these "risk factors" does it mention that a diet low in organic fruits and vegetables increases your cancer risk??? Nutrition matters!
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