Be vigilant about your health if you had skin cancer

For the many people who are told they have skin cancer, there several lucky ones. Although it’s never a good thing to be told you have any type of cancer, most people who are diagnosed with skin cancer are diagnosed so early, that it’s very curable.

But…be careful, even after you’ve been given the all clear. According to a study out of Ireland, if you’ve been diagnosed and cured of melanoma, the more serious of the two types of skin cancer, you have twice the risk of developing another type of cancer. If you’ve been diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, the "mild" cancer that doesn’t spread, you may have up to a 57% higher chance of developing another cancer.

You can read more about the findings in this article, Skin cancer patients at greater risk for other cancer

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Tags: cancer blog, skin cancer, basal cell cancer, melanoma