A history of painful, severe sunburn has been linked to a significantly higher risk of developing the second most common type of skin cancer, new research has found.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Texas, and Baylor College of Medicine made the discovery in their bid to better understand the effects of sunburn in developing cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

They analysed data from 17 studies, one of which was the Geraldton Skin Cancer Prevention Survey, with more than 320,000 combined participants.

They found those with medium or high frequencies of “painful, blistering, and/or severe sunburns” across their lifetime had significantly increased odds of developing cSCC.

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common type of skin cancer,

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