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When to get a mole checked: Signs it’s time to schedule a check-up for your moles
Knowing your skin cancer risk helps you decide whether to have a general skin cancer check over your whole body, or just to have suspect moles checked individually.
Risk factors include:
- History of skin cancer, especially melanoma, but also basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and pre-cancerous conditions such as solar keratoses.
- More than 100 moles, particularly if you have ever been diagnosed with a dysplastic mole.
- Family history of melanoma.
- Certain health conditions, mainly those affecting the immune system.
- Certain treatments, such as radiotherapy and drug treatments that affect the immune system.
- Very fair skin that burns easily and rarely tans.
- A history of multiple peeling sunburns or solarium attendances when young.
Causes of skin cancer
Skin cancer usually occurs because ultraviolet radiation damages the DNA in skin cells.
Ultraviolet radiation affects DNA both in large, intense doses (i.e., enough to cause a peeling sunburn) and also over many years at a lower intens
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