Too much sun, especially getting sunburned often or spending a lot of time in the sun over the years, raises your chance of getting a common type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma,...

Spending lots of time in the sun on vacations or weekends is more likely to cause BCC than being outside during daily routines like walking to work.

Chronic ultraviolet radiation exposure is the primary etiological factor in the development of non-melanoma skin cancers, specifically basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, which frequently occur on sun-exposed facial regions and can result in significant structural disfigurement upon surgical excision.

Different kinds of skin cancer are caused by different kinds of sun exposure: melanoma by childhood sunburns, BCC by weekend sunbathing, and SCC by years of daily sun exposure.

Getting badly sunburned many times before age 25 makes it much more likely for women to get any kind of skin cancer later in life.

UV radiation from the sun or artificial sources can harm your skin by causing sunburn, aging it faster, weakening your skin’s defenses, and even leading to skin cancer because it reaches deep into your skin.