About 10% patients diagnosed with the disease has a family membe

The Skin Cancer Foundation

Family History
If your mother, father, siblings or children have had a melanoma, you are in a melanoma-prone family. Each person with a first-degree relative diagnosed with melanoma has a 50 percent greater chance of developing the disease than people who do not have a family history.

早期发现早期治疗是很重要的。去年Glamour杂志就登了关于黑色素癌包括典型图片的一篇文章，引起很多读者去看皮肤科医生，结果有不少人都检查出了黑色素癌（melanoma)。今年五月号Glamour再次登出相关文章，感兴趣的可以去超市书店买一本。

The 2 Minute cancer test from Glamour