Gay and bisexual men ‘more likely to suffer skin cancer’ – and it may be because they use sunbeds more, scientists say

Gay men are more likely to suffer skin cancer than straight men and it may be because they use sunbeds more, scientists say.

Rates of skin cancer were 8.1 – 8.4 per cent among gay and bisexual men compared to 6.7 for straight men in a group of more than 45,000 Americans.

However, gay and bisexual women were either at the same risk of skin cancer or lower compared with straight women, according to four year’s worth of questionnaires collected by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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