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In brief: Take off that Band-Aid!
In brief
Take off that Band-Aid!
You're supposed to keep a wound covered and dry for a day or two. But an Australian study is rubbing some doubt into that wound-care supposition.
Doctors in the Mackay area of Queensland enrolled about 850 skin surgery patients in their study. Skin cancer is common in Australia, and about half of the patients had skin abnormalities excised that tests later showed to be cancerous.
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