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I just had a skin cancer removed. It was squamous cell carcinoma. I have had two of these removed already over a period of years. Sun exposure is supposed to be a cause of it, but where my cancer was, no sun could hit this part of my body. It was just above the pubic hairs, and I never laid out nude.