Integral of a special combination of polynomial and exponential functions

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I am trying to solve the following integral where $x$ is a random variable from a sub-Gaussian distribution while $c\geq 2$ and $\beta>0$:

$$\int_0^\infty x^{c-1} \exp{\left(-\frac{x^c}{\beta^c}-\frac{x^2}{2 \beta^2}\right)} dx $$

I know the solution to the following known integral:

$$\int_0^{\infty} x^n \exp\,(-a x^b)\,dx = \frac{1}{b}\, a^{-\frac{n+1}{b}} \Gamma \left(\frac{n+1}{b} \right) $$

However, the exponential function in my problem has a polynomial power. Can anyone please help me through this?