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No study has investigated the effect of high- versus low-SPF sunscreens on cSCC, appropriately adjusting for time-varying confounding. Using data from the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (1991\u20132016), we investigated whether use of SPF \u226515 versus SPF &amp;lt;15 sunscreens reduces cSCC risk. We used a marginal structural Cox proportional hazards model with inverse probability of treatment and censoring weights to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). During follow-up of 148,781 women (mean follow-up, 14.3 years), 653 women were diagnosed with cSCC. The effect on cSCC risk of sunscreens with SPF \u226515 versus SPF &amp;lt;15 was close to the null when used at any latitudes (HR\u00a0= 1.02, 95% CI: 0.82, 1.27) and when used in lower-latitude settings (HR\u00a0= 1.05, 95% CI: 0.84, 1.32). 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