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Construction workers up to nine times more likely to get skin cancer

Britain’s 2.4 million construction workers should “cover up and slap on the sun block” this summer, according to the Society of Occupational Medicine. The warning comes as new research published in the scientific Journal “Occupational Medicine” shows that skin cancer is a major threat to building workers.

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