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Is weight loss surgery associated with a reduced risk of skin cancer?

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JAMA Network

What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association between weight loss surgery and a subsequent diagnosis of skin cancer, including melanoma, among 4,000 obese patients in Sweden, who had the surgery or received usual treatment.

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Authors: Magdalena Taube, Ph.D., of the University of Gothenburg, in Gothenburg, Sweden, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2019.3240)

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