For decades, Americans have been sun lovers . An unforeseen side effect is a dramatic rise in the number of cases of skin cancer.
Skin cancers are now the most common type of cancer.
They used to be seen almost exclusively among older people. But now they're showing up in younger people too. It is a slow-growing cancer that does not spread to other parts of the body. At first, basal cell cancers usually appear as small round or oval patches. They are usually shiny, colored white or gray and they have a hard consistency.