Childhood sunburns ‘important contributor’ to melanoma, cSCC later in life

Source: Healio, November 2022

Sunburns early in life may be associated with melanoma or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma later in life, according to a study.

“To our knowledge, no study investigated lifetime patterns of sunburns and skin cancer risk, likely because understanding the relationship between sunburns over a lifetime and skin cancer risk is challenging,” Simon Lergenmuller, PhD, of the department of clinical and registry-based research at the Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, told Healio.

“Past sunburns may affect behavior in relation to sun exposure, in turn affecting future sunburn frequencies, making it difficult to investigate the association between sunburns at different ages with skin cancer risk,” he said.
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