Having a form of skin cancer may increase the risk for developing any type of cancer in the future.

Researchers found patients who had been diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer were two times more likely to develop any type of cancer later on, compared to patients who never had the disease.

This is according to researchers at the medical university of South Carolina.

They studied over 750 non-melanoma skin cancer patients, and compared them to 18,000 people without the disease. All were followed for 16 years.

They also found the strongest link between skin cancer and future cancer was age: people age 25 to 44 were most likely to develop another malignancy.

In other medical news…

Eating foods that contain MSG, a flavor enhancer often used in Asian food, may plump up your waistline!

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied the health records of 750 men and women living in three rural Chinese villages.

They found those who used MSG were more likely to be overweight or obese compared to non-users.

This is one of the first studies to show a direct link between eating foods that contain MSG and obesity, before only animals that were injected with the additive became obese.