May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. People who have POTS often have autoimmune disease as an underlying cause. And people with autoimmune disease have a higher risk for all types of cancer including skin cancer and lymphoma.
I can tell you from personal experience, it's not fun to have chunks carved out of you and then have to wear makeup to cover the scars. I have a couple of scars that are bad enough that I tell people I have been in a knife fight.
Wear your sunblock people.
Skin cancer risk in autoimmune connective tissue diseases
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24975951
Skin cancers associated with autoimmune conditions among elderly adults
Merkel Cell Carcinomas--Autoimmune Disease
New England Journal of Medicine--Risk for Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Associated with Immunosuppressive Treatment of Autoimmune Disease
Diagnosis and Treatment of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Basal Cell Carcinoma--The Most Commonly Occurring Form Of Skin Cancer
