Dermatologist on skin cancer: ‘Skin colored bump that grows quickly? Then immediately to the doctor’
Being outside in the sun, we love to do that at this time of year. But exposure to too much UV radiation in sunlight can lead to skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the Netherlands. One in five Dutch people will have to deal with it, knows Patrick Kemperman, dermatologist at Amsterdam UMC and the Dijklander hospital in Purmerend. He talks about the three types of skin cancer and what you can do to prevent them.