Beach vacations may increase future skin cancer risk in children

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 04:56 in Health & Medicine

Vacationing at the shore led to a 5 percent increase in nevi (more commonly called "moles") among 7-year-old children, according to a paper published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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