Lack of UV-A protection in daily moisturizing creams.

risk of developing melanoma, even after skin cancer risk factors including skin type are controlled for. Hispanics also are less knowledgeable about melanoma, less likely to perform self-examinations, and often unaware of the clinical signs of skin cancer; they have worse outcomes. The worse outcomes are to result from issues of health care delivery, but the possibility exists that melanomas in Hispanics may be more biologically aggressive. The exact reasons underlying the correlation between geographic clustering of late-stage melanoma diagnoses and Hispanics are not yet known and would be important to investigate in future studies.