Melanoma is the most common skin cancer and the fifth most common cancer among adults in the United States. Risk can be reduced by limiting exposure to ultraviolet rays and using sun protection.
Anyone can get skin cancer, and it can occur in places on the body that don't get that much sun, like the hands and fingernails, and feet and toenails.
Residents of the often-gray Pacific Northwest have happily embraced the sun's recent, if tenuous, return. The sudden springtime search for sunscreen, however, belies the fact that ultraviolet (UV) light showers us year-round.
