Recently read something about how a few bad sunburns when you’re young can cause a large increase in cancer later in your life. How can you develop cancer several decades after you’re burnt if your skin cells are constantly dying, falling off, and regrowing?
In: Biology
Basically cell maintenance and replacement is like a photocopy of a photocopy. Eventually there’s loss of information.
Sun burns are kinda like at one point you touch a copy with dirty hands and that exacerbates the information loss of all copies after that one.
The lost information could be nothing or it could have vital information on what the next copy should have to be legible and do its work, in this case, proper cell formation which is affected can cause abnormalities such as cancer.
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