Skin Color Cancer Risk
Cancer May 30th, 2010
skin color can affect a person’s risk of skin cancer and photoaging (aging from the sun). Skin damage from ultraviolet rays include wrinkles, pigmentation, and skin becomes rough.
The following classification of skin according to The Fitzpatrick Classification of Skin Type, which consists of six categories:
1. Always burns, never be more dark, brown (pale skin, white).
2. Flammable, in menimal brown (white).
3. Simply burn, to brown them evenly (tan leather).
4. Burns minimally, always tan well (brown leather).
5. Rarely burns, with clear brown (dark brown skin).
6. Never burn (the skin pigment that contains dark brown to black).
People with skin type 1 usually have pale skin, white, red or blond hair, green eyes or blue, and the descendants of Celtic (Irish, Scottish, Welsh, or Breton). People with this skin type’s most high-risk of experiencing a variety of skin problems due to exposure to sunlight, including skin cancer and photoaging.
People with type 2 and 3 have white skin with pigmentation more clearly, and have moderate to high risk for skin problems from the sun.
While they were with the type 4 and 5 have an olive skin color to brown, and moderate to low risk for experiencing skin problems. Type 6 is the skin of those who have dark brown to black. The risk of this skin type to skin problems from the sun is only minimum.
