For it to be familial dysplastic naevus syndrome, other close family members must have it too. People with this condition have a higher than average risk of malignant melanoma. The sun, skin colour and freckling People who are very fair skinned, particularly those with fair or red hair, are more at risk of developing malignant melanoma. Those with darker skins can get the disease. But they have more natural protection.
Black people can get malignant melanoma.
But worldwide, one in five cases of malignant melanoma is diagnosed in a black African or Asian person. In the UK, if you are fair and have a tendency to freckle in the sun, you are most at risk. If you have a tendency to sun burn, you are at more than average risk of malignant melanoma. The fairest of all, those of you who complain about going red and then peeling before you even get a tan, are at the most risk. At the moment there is no general screening programme in the UK for malignant melanoma, where everyone is examined for abnormal moles.