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Re:Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and uns... by mactrey on Sunday May 22, 2022 @10:17PM (#31474751)
I also have vitiligo. Vitiligo sufferers have overall significantly lower rates of skin cancer. While the reason is unknown, in my mind the connection between "immune system aggressively attacks skin cells" and "less skin cancer" makes sense.
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Re:Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and uns... by tasty_freeze on Monday May 23, 2022 @12:50AM (#31475429)
mactrey, found this pubmed paper from Taiwan and they paint a very different picture. See table 3 in particular:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164767/

Although the SIRs of melanoma, cancers of oral cavity, hepatoma and lymphoma were also increased in vitiligo patients, the significance was lost after correction for multiple testing. No specific cancer occurred less frequently in vitiligo patients than in the general population.

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