Question:
A lot of darker skinned people are less likely to be tanning a lot. I was thinking about this and I could not remember ever hearing about a non-white person gettin skin cancer. So can other people get it?
Although it appears *harder* (statistically) for dark-skinned people to come down with skin cancer, to the best of my knowledge it's an equal opportunuity killer.
Answer:
DataPoint: in my 7th and 8th grade school (er... 1971 ish), we had to
share lockers (I guess that's common enough) assigned alphabetically,
and my partner turned out later that year to be the class president.
He was also black. Quite dark, in fact, not the light brown that some
'black' skins are. And twice that year, he got serious sunburns. It
was very difficult to see -- his skin was so dark, you couldn't really
tell that it was reddened -- until he started peeling. But I patted
him on the shoulder once, and he about jumped out the window (pain).
If you can get a sunburn, which relates to UV exposure, then I'd say
you can get skin cancer too, since that also often relates to too much
UV exposure.
