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Dr Daniel Glass
The Dermatology Clinic London
Can you get skin cancer on any part of the body?
Dr. Daniel Glass advises that you can get skin canceron every part of the body. Some skin cancers are found on the parts of the body more exposed to the sun, like the face and hands.
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You can get skin cancer on any part of the body. It's more common in areas that are exposed to the sun, so on the face, on the backs of the hands. But it can occur anywhere. In fact, if you look at melanoma skin cancer, the commonest place for a man to get melanoma is on the trunk, and the commonest place for a woman to get melanoma is on the legs. That's different to other sorts of skin cancers like basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, which are more common on exposed parts, as I said before.