People of celtic origin are known to be at greater risk of developing skin cancer.
We have now succeeded in exporting our problem to distant continents, such as Australia
and America. Irish ancestry is considered to be the best predictor of the development
of skin cancer in Caucasian Americans. It is not surprising that the first description
of a basal cell carcinoma is credited to an Irish ophthalmologist Arthur Jacob, who
in 1827 delivered an apt clinical description of this most common tumor.
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