Skin Cancer Risk Factors
Fair skin, moles, history of sunburns and tropical address are some of the risk factors for skin cancer. Dr. Debra Price, Dermatologist with Baptist Health South Florida, says although people with fair skin and people who are redheads are more at risk for skin cancer, anybody can get it.
"One of the dangers we see is that people with darker skin oftentimes have this full sense of security that they can't develop skin cancer, and so what we found and studies have shown, that oftentimes they come later rather than earlier, when they notice an abnormal lesion, and of course the consequences of that are serious," she explains.
