How can sunburns and sun exposure cause permanent skin damage if your skin is constantly replacing itself?

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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?

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The longer you are exposed to the sun, the more the plans for rebuilding get faded and harder to read.

Over a long period of time, skin cells begins to have errors as the dna structure is mutated/damaged by radiation.

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