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Stopping cancer before it starts

Skin cancer

By far the most important thing you can do to prevent skin cancer is to cover up in the sun, particularly between 11am and 3pm during the summer months.

The evidence also shows arsenic in drinking water is probably a cause of skin cancer, though this mainly affects areas without a regulated supply of drinking water.

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Page last reviewed: October 2011
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