Warning: New Skin Cancer Study Finds Outdoor Workers Are Less Likely To Get Screened For Skin Cancer

While occupational risks are inherent in many jobs, workers who make a living toiling in the sun face an increased threat of skin cancer from repeated overexposure to the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. Now, new research finds that workers who need skin exams the most by nature of their occupation — such as construction, forestry, fishing and farming workers — are the least likely to get them.

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Filed under: Dermatology on May 15th, 2008