Melanoma is the deadliest of all skin cancers, and a lifetime exposure to sun does leave a person at risk for developing other types of skin cancer, like basal cell carcinoma. My daughter had a melanoma cut out of her leg at 13—she was a redhead—and it had to be sent to the United States for analysis because we hadn't got the service here. If you can't remove the lesions, it's a pretty invasive process to take chemotherapy and radiation for this. Over 500 people a year do die from this condition. 