Getting This Many Sunburns Could More Than Double the Risk of Skin Cancer

“Sunburn is a marker of the amount and severity of sun damage that occurs within a short window of time,” Casey told Verywell. “At the cellular level, the ultraviolet rays of the sun are penetrating through and into the skin, causing radiation damage to the cells in the skin. The skin’s response to this UV attack is to release a flood of inflammatory cells to help heal the damage and allow the skin to recover. It is this inflammation that manifests as the warmth and redness of a sunburn.”