Is it true that only people with light skin get skin cancer? No.
Anyone can get skin cancer. It's more common among people with a
light (fair) skin tone, but skin cancer can affect anyone. Skin
cancer can affect both men and women. How can people with dark
skin get skin cancer? Although dark skin does not burn in the
sun as easily as fair skin, everyone is at risk for skin cancer.
Even people who don't burn are at risk for skin cancer. It
doesn't matter whether you consider your skin light, dark, or
somewhere in between. You are at risk for skin cancer. Being in
the sun can damage your skin. Sunlight causes damage through
ultraviolet, or UV rays, (they make up just one part of
sunlight). Two parts of UV, UVA and UVB, can both cause damage
to skin. Also, the sun isn't the only cause of skin cancer.
There are other causes. That's why skin cancer may be found in
places on the body never exposed to the sun. What does skin
cancer look like? There are many different types of skin cancer
(such as melanoma and basal