New research suggests four in five millennials and Gen Xers can’t identify nonmelanoma skin cancer, according to One Poll.
The poll of 1,000 millennials and 1,000 Gen X respondents found that about 80% were unable to identify nonmelanoma skin cancer when shown the names to their corresponding images. Seventy-nine percent couldn’t identify squamous cell carcinoma, and 82% couldn’t identify basal cell carcinoma. A similar proportion of respondents (79%) couldn’t place actinic keratosis, a lesion that develops in sun-damaged skin and can progress to squamous cell carcinoma.
