Skin cancer affects as many as 16,000 people in the UK each year, which is why it is important to know potential warning signs.
Melanoma - a form of skin cancer - is the fifth most common cancer in the UK. Often skin cancers are caused by excessive exposure to sunlight or by artificial sources of UV radiation - typically from sunbeds.
Another risk factor is family history, as Cancer Research UK points out that melanoma skin cancer risk is around doubled in people with a family history of the same disease. The charity and research organisation adds that inherited risk accounts for around 10 percent of melanoma skin cancer cases
