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Sun damage: It's not just from today!

Skin cancer is accumulative from years of tanning. Even if you stop and you should, you still can get it from all the previous years of tanning. I'm a skincare specialist. I have found skin cancers on people that resemble small skin colored bumps to scrap marks of red. All skin cancers do not always look like a mole.

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