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Skin & Sun Damage

How the sun affects your skin — melanin and skin colour, sunburn and tanning, freckles and moles, photoaging, and the skin cancers that repeated exposure can cause.

Human skin

Human skin

Melanin

Melanin

Human skin color

Human skin color

Sunburn

Sunburn

Sun tanning

Sun tanning

Freckle

Freckle

Melanoma

Melanoma

Skin cancer

Skin cancer

Melanocytic nevus

Melanocytic nevus

Photoaging

Photoaging

Actinic keratosis

Actinic keratosis

Melanocyte

Melanocyte

Epidermis

Epidermis