Why sunburns can cause skin cancer but getting yourself burn on a hot surface can’t?

Question

I’m not completely sure about this, during the summer we get tons of warnings about protecting ourselves from the sun, but once I was burn with hot oil while cooking and no one in the hospital told me anything about skin cancer risks.

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The heat from the sun isn’t what burns you (or everything would be melted and we’d all be dead). It’s the radiation.

And as we know, radiation causes cancer.