Melanoma more common on left side of the body - The Independent on Sunday 25th November 2007

Skin cancer is more common on the left side of the body, scientists have discovered. And sun bathing facing south may be to blame. New research shows that there are up to 19 per cent more skin melanomas on the left sides of people in Britain than on the right. Similar differences were also found in four other countries by the researchers who looked at the sites of almost 100,000 tumours.In the first study of its kind, researchers from the from the NHS, the US National Institutes of Health and other agencies, looked at cases of melanoma in England, Scotland, Australia, The Netherlands, and the US.

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