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Sun ‘left’ man half scarred

What a two-face.

An unnamed 69-year-old truck driver — who spent 28 years on the road with the sun beating down on his left cheek — is a walking advertisement for sunscreen lotion.

The right side of his mug is smooth, while the sun-damaged half is crevassed and pruned beyond his years.

“The biggest take-home message from all of this is that you can get UV radiation through window glass even if you are just running an errand,” said Jennifer Gordon, a doctor at Northwestern University who is studying the patient.

Gordon published the picture of the anonymous trucker and her diagnosis — “photoaging” — in the most recent issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. She recommended periodic monitoring for skin cancer.