Symptoms
Causes
Here is a list of how sun damage presents, including potentially life-threatening skin cancer:
Skin texture changes, such as coarse wrinkles, especially on the back of the neck, and fine wrinkles caused by thinning of the skin, especially on the forearms and back of hands.
Excessive bruising from minor trauma.
Pigment changes, such as brown spots, freckles, age spots and liver spots.White spots on legs, arms and the back of hands.
Red areas on the sides of the neck.
Moles, some of which can develop into skin cancer.
Pre-cancerous skin changes, including red scaly lesions called actinic keratosis and lesions on the lips called actinic cheilitis, both of which can develop into squamous cell carcinoma.