May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, just in time for those scorching Atlanta temperatures to start spreading through the metro area. If you or your loved ones plan to spend a lot of time outside over the next few months, the American Cancer Society wants you to know about the increased skin cancer risks the season brings.

“Skin cancer risk factors are present every day of every season,” ACS volunteer and ACS Cancer Action Network Board of Directors member Bruce Waldholtz said in a news release, “but they are greater in the summer when days are longer and people are spending more time outdoors.”

Skin cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in the U.S., according to the ACS, with over 5 million people diagnosed each year. In Georgia alone, 3,520 people are expected to be diagnosed with the dis

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