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Can gel manicures significantly increase your risk for skin cancer?
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Biggest issue: Lies not with the manicure it self but if you use gel polishes which are "cured"/hardened with UV light. While the UV exposure from this is relatively small, over time, repeated exposures could eventually lead to more than a trivial increase in skin cancer.
Answered 8/19/2018
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