A member asked:

If you get sunburnt, is there anything you can do to help heal the skin and prevent the damage becoming skin cancer? like repair the dna?

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Dr. Romanth Waghmarae answered

Specializes in Pain Management

Skin burn: Firstly - skin cancer is rarer with just one time skin burn. repeated exposure increases the risk. Secondly there are many creams and lotions that are sold as skin repair/DNa repair - we do not have such a thing as yet. They just help protect and repair with core molecules like collagen, vitamins etc.. THe actual repair comes from the deeper layer cells in the skin.

Answered 10/24/2017

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