Peter Attia· MD
So, UVB probably causes more skin cancers than UVA, but they're both implicated.
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So, UVB probably causes more skin cancers than UVA, but they're both implicated.
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That's A for aging. We have UVB and that's B for burns.
We have UVB and that's B for burns. That's the one that causes a lot of the redness and the sunburns and leaves behind a lot of the atypia in the cells.