Our healthy skin is a mosaic of both normal and mutation-bearing cells. As we age, a growing number of cells accumulate more mutations including those that can cause cancer. Eventually these mutant cells fueled by environmental insults, such as high sun exposure, gradually outcompete our healthy cells rendering individuals more susceptible to skin cancers.
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Source: Phys.org