Can you tell me about skin cancer?

What does it look like and how do you know you have it? I just started going tanning and my skin is getting really tight and dry. My face looks so much healthier tho because it gave me color and I love how I don't have to wear make up anymore. What are my chances of getting skin cancer? I have olive skin btw if that helps.

Your skin cells over time begin to mutate and you could get basil cell skin cancer after a couple decades of exposing yourself to the lights in tanning beds or by laying out in the sun. Basil cell skin cancer has to be cut out of your skin with a knife by a dermatologist so it doesn't spread. If it did spread, it wouldn't kill you but it would damage other tissues enough to cause some problems. Other types of skin cancers can actually be deadly. Most appear like malformed moles or funky colored sores or spots that will keep growing over time. The way you can tell it's cancer is if it keeps changing. To know if it's any harm, you go to the dermatologist for screening, they know how to spot them before they can be a threat. One dangerous kind is called melanoma, but thankfully it's pretty rare. If you're concerned about your skin, the best thing to do is to wear sun screen with a 30 spf or higher and not expose yourself to tanning lights and cover yourself up much as you can when you're outside for sports or recreation.

Well if you are twenty by the time you are forty you will look like a 75 year old woman. My aunts family suffers with cancers on the skin she is aways going to the Dr. to get them cut out,she is 60 know and her skin looks like a 90 year old. she is trying to save herself so she can go to her grandchildrens 21st and weddings. If you want to sun bake and look good for a little go ahead and it is a possibility (huge Possibility) it will shorten your life.