Fair skinned people ( Northern European heritage) tend to burn more easily and get skin cancer more easily.
Yes.
I don't tend to "burn more easily," but that's probably because I take rigorous precautions.
Of course, I take those precautions because melanoma is no fun.....not to mention expensive.
What I find exasperating is that just as I think I've gotten it beat, ooops, it pops up again.
This skin, genetically, was made to be caressed by the North Sea, softened by the Baltic Sea, not burned by the Sandhills sun.
For me, I always thought the "perfect" climes for this skin are the Highlands of Scotland in January.....the problem there being it's January only once a year in the Highlands of Scotland.
Our colleague John is right, though; surgeons do a good job, a great job.