Beach Vacations May Increase Future Skin Cancer Risk in Children.

Vacationing at the shore led to a 5 percent increase in nevi (more commonly called "moles") among 7-year-old children, according to a paper published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Comment: This was not a longitudinal study but because it will probably be given prominence in the media who like to scare people, this study should be taken with great caution.