Both my wife and I are fair, she’s blonde and I have dark hair. We both have blue eyes, so we’ve always been prime candidates.
No matter how busy we are otherwise, we still always spend a lot of time outside, and have always taken extreme precautions to make sure we aren’t damaging or aging our skin, and yet, we’ve both had a skin cancer on our legs. We think the overexposure may have happened when we were in HI for an extended period of time, and may not have paid as much attention as we should. Thankfully, it wasn’t Melanoma.
Both of us were Stage 0, (another good reason for seeing the Dermo every year, if you’re prone) and we’ve both had Mohs surgery at Scripps, with no recurrence.
If you’re outside much, or cancer is in your family, or you see anything unusual on your skin–surprisingly skin cancer is not just brown or black, it can be pink, red, purple, etc.–be sure to see your Dermo.
