Melanoma (Skin Cancer) Quiz: Symptoms, Pictures & Staging

Explanation:

Individual sunburns do raise your risk of melanoma. However, some daily sun exposure, even without burning, may also substantially raise your risk of skin cancer.

Factors that raise your risk for melanoma include the following:

– Caucasian (white) ancestry

– Fair skin, light hair, and light-colored eyes

– A history of intense, intermittent sun exposure, especially in childhood

– Many (more than 100) moles

– Large, irregular, or “funny looking” moles

– Close blood relatives — parents, siblings, and children — with melanoma

Note: The presence of close (first-degree) family with melanoma is a high risk factor, although looking at all of melanoma, only 10% of cases run in families.