Risk Factors

Many factors can increase your risk for developing melanoma. Risk factors include:

• Fair skin, light eyes
• Many freckles
• Severe, blistering sunburns as a child or adult
• Family history of melanoma
• Having had melanoma in the past
• Non-cancerous, unusual looking moles (called dysplastic nevi)
• More than 50 moles on the skin
• A weakened immune system
• Exposure to UV radiation from tanning salons and tanning beds

Source: Melanoma.com