skin cancer?

Question

how can we get skin cancer if we have never been a sun bather????

i had a bcc removed from my face last summer and i have never sat in the sun for ages i was also told that it was a form of skin cancer that you dont normaly get till your are about in your 60s!!

so why did i get it at the age of 36??

anyone can help me please....

i have also been told that i have to cover up now for the rest of my life...its not fair all these people that lay in the sun all the time never get anything wrong with them...so why me!!!!!

i always had sun cream on when i was in the sun when i was little......

Answer 1

sorry you got skin cancer,but the only good thing is that it was a basal cell carcinoma,which is the least malignant form of skin cancer.If you had a squamous cell carcinoma or a melanoma it would be of more concern. Hpoe they made sure they cut out enought to be sure the margins are free of those cells.

Answer 2

Maybe you sunbathed or caught the sun once when you were a little girl - cancer can appear many years, decades even, after the damaging exposure.
The sun cream that was available 25 years ago was nowhere near effective enough to prevent skin cancer.
Even the so-called 5star products available today are useless unless they are applied every couple of hours or so, regardless of what the packaging might tell you.
The only fail safe way to prevent skin cancer is to cover up in UV blocking clothes. It's safer to stay out of the sun altogether.

Answer 3

Some people are more prone. You're right to be thinking of sun damage as a main contributory cause, but other factors do influence cancers, inlcuding skin cancer.

Missing the Sun?
Unless someone lived in a concrete bunker all of their life, their skin would have been inundated with sun light. Some sunscreens don't even filter ultraviolet light that well. And several years of bit-by-bit exposure adds up and increases risk. So your skin will have been damaged, as for all of us, just by going about daily life, with a few minutes a day outside. We don't need to have had a long holiday to have had too much exposure. I met a woman in her 20's who showed me her arm, with a huge chunk missing, where she had had a type of cancer removed. It was a wake-up call to me. (Possibly a different type to yours, of course).

You could have been cloned at birth and lived identical lives, with your identical cloned twin not having any cancerous effect. It's somewhat random. And it's tragic that you have had this.

Increasing your Lycopene intake can help reduce your skins tendency to suffer further skin 'burn' effects and may or may not help reduce someone's chance of getting skin cancers. It's naturally available in tomatoes and other some other foods and could be a good option for you. eg. as a natural supplement.

Those 'other people' lounging in the sun may be storing up goodness knows what for themselves in the future, and you may have been worse if you'd followed that lifestyle much in the past.

Perhaps you could find a group, self-help etc, of people who could help you better to come to terms with this.

Just some quick thoughts. Good luck! Rob

Answer 4

If your skin is really fair, you won't need much exposure at all to cause a skin cancer.

I never understand why people cook themselves in the sun knowing the danger but then people still smoke don't they? Some skin is just more vunerable to cancer than others, it's all to do with pigmentation and genetics.

Good you got it early!!

Answer 5

Some burn quicker than others. You dont have to sit in the sun to burn, just walking around we are exposed. I wear a factor 50 on my face but you should wear higher if you're skin is so sensitive. Also, people think you dont need to wear sunscreen in winter, you do!

Answer 6

Its tough and I am none to sure that it has much to do with the sun. My friend got one on her back which hardly ever saw the sun and another friend on his foot. The good news is that was five years ago and they are well in the clear so I am sure you will be

Answer 7

sun bathing is one of the caused but is not the only one you are expose to damaging rays everyday for that reason is better to use hydrating cream with sun protection.

Answer 8

Life is never quite fair to some of us.

Answer 9

Sometimes I wish life had subtitles!
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Answer 10

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