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Melanoma accounts for only around 1% of skin cancers but causes a large majority of skin cancer deaths – and many of those fatalities are avoidable. Ultraviolet light, which comes from the sun and is used in sunbeds, is the main cause of melanoma, and it can only take a few sunburns to increase your risk dramatically. How many sunburns can cause melanoma?Speaking on TikTok, skin cancer surgeon Dr. Abby Waldman revealed that just one “bad blistering sunburn” when you are young will double your chance of melanoma. Five “normal non-blistering sunburns” at any point also double your chance of deve…

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