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Article: Risk of child developing skin cancer increased 1,100 percent since 1930's: Yale dermatologist. (Sidney Hurwitz)
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- July 18, 1988
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RISK OF CHILD DEVELOPING SKIN CANCER INCREASED
1,100 PERCENT SINCE 1930'S: YALE DERMATOLOGIST
/ADVANCE/NEW YORK, July 18 /PRNewswire/ The risk of a child developing skin cancer as an adult has increased more than 1,100 percent since the 1930s, asserts a Yale School of Medicine professor of pediatrics and dermatology, who attributes the problem to the depletion of the earth's ozone layer and erroneously equating suntan with healthy good looks.
Sidney Hurwitz, M.D., notes in the current (August) issue of Parents Magazine, that in the 1930s the risk of a child's growing up to ...