(Sam Blanchard/ The Daily Mail) — People whose relatives have had skin cancer may be more likely to get the illness themselves, according to a study.
Researchers suggest the genetic risk of the disease may be higher even if people have better sun-care habits than others in their family.
The risk of getting melanoma, the fifth most common cancer in the UK, rises by 74 per cent for people whose immediate relatives have had the illness.
And those with a family history of them may be more likely to get squamous and basal cell carcinomas – two other common skin cancers.
Research by experts at Indiana University looked at data from 216,115 people collected over the course of 20 years. (…)